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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 Historical Circumstances Under Which The Pidgin And Creole Languages Arose. The Contributions Deal With Different Areas Of Language Structure Including Phonology, Morphology, And Syntax, Providing A Wealth Of Structural And Sociohistorical Data That Any Comprehensive Theory Of Contact Languages Will Have To Account For. Each Of The Papers Provides A Thorough Description Of A Structural Phenomenon Against The Background Of The Sociohistorical Contact Situation. The Languages Covered In The Book Are: Guiné-bissau Creole, Haitian Creole, Hawai‘i Creole, Indo-portuguese Creoles, Jamaican Creole, Lingua Franca, North American French, Mauritian Creole, Santomense, Saramaccan, Seychelles Creole, Sranan, Surinamese Maroon Creoles, Vincentian Creole, And Zamboangueño Chavacano.

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Author

Susanne Michaelis; Creole Language Structures between Substrates and Superstrates

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282104440

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction