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Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles. by John H McWhorter; Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly argue for controversial positions. The papers demonstrate how pidgins and creoles shed light on issues such as verb movement, contact-induced language change and its gradations, discourse management via tense-aspect particles, language genesis, substratal transfer, and Universal Grammar, and cover a w. Read more...

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Author

John H McWhorter; Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Co

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9789027299482

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Linguistics, Literary Fiction