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Language: en
Pages: 446
Pages: 446
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
This book reflects an ongoing shift in the study of contact languages: After a period of history-free universalism, it directs the attention to the individual h
Language: en
Pages: 572
Pages: 572
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-05 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
The Atlas presents commentaries and colour maps showing how 130 linguistic features - phonological, syntactic, morphological, and lexical - are distributed amon
Language: en
Pages: 626
Pages: 626
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-17 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major
Language: en
Pages: 335
Pages: 335
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-12 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
This book presents an empirical study of syllable structure and phonotactic restructuring in six Caribbean creoles with Dutch, English and French as main lexifi
Language: en
Pages: 222
Pages: 222
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-03-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career. Each author inclu
Language: en
Pages: 401
Pages: 401
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-29 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
This study embarks on the intriguing quest for the origins of the Caribbean creole language Papiamentu. In the literature on the issue, widely diverging hypothe
Language: en
Pages: 338
Pages: 338
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-20 - Publisher: Language Science Press
This book brings together papers that discuss social and structural aspects of language contact and language change. Several papers look at the relevance of his
Language: en
Pages: 538
Pages: 538
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-29 - Publisher: Routledge
The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages offers a state-of-the-art collection of original contributions in the area of Pidgin and Creole studies. P
Language: en
Pages: 426
Pages: 426
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-31 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and ins
Language: en
Pages: 599
Pages: 599
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the fi
