1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990002539740403321

Autore

Tucker, Howard G.

Titolo

An Introduction to Probability and Mathematical Statistics / Howard G. Tucker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : Academic Press, 1962

Descrizione fisica

xii, 228 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

519

Locazione

MAS

Collocazione

MI-A-202

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967708803321

Autore

Lefebvre Claire

Titolo

Issues in the study of Pidgin and Creole languages / / Claire Lefebvre

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 2004

©2004

ISBN

9786613280282

9781283280280

1283280280

9789027281852

9027281858

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 358 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in language companion series (SLCS), , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 70

Disciplina

417/.22

Soggetti

Pidgin languages

Creole dialects

Creole dialects, French - Haiti

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2. THE GENESIS OF PIDGIN AND CREOLE LANGUAGES A STATE OF THE ART; CHAPTER 3. THE RELEXIFICATION ACCOUNT OF CREOLE GENESIS THE CASE OF HAITIAN CREOLE; CHAPTER 4. WHAT DO CREOLE STUDIES HAVE TO OFFER TO MAINSTREAM LINGUISTICS?; CHAPTER 5. ON DATA; CHAPTER 6. MULTIFUNCTIONALITY AND THE CONCEPT OF LEXICAL ENTRY; CHAPTER 7. ON THE SEMANTIC OPACITY OF CREOLE LANGUAGES

CHAPTER 8. DO CREOLE LANGUAGES REALLY FORM A TYPOLOGICAL CLASS?; CHAPTER 9. THE INTERPLAY OF RELEXIFICATION AND LEVELLING IN CREOLE GENESIS AND DEVELOPMENT; CHAPTER 10. THE EMERGENCE OF PRODUCTIVE MORPHOLOGY IN CREOLE LANGUAGES THE CASE OF HAITIAN CREOLE; REFERENCES; APPENDIX 1. A RESEARCH PROGRAMME ON PC GENESIS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY; APPENDIX 2. THE COMPOSITION OF THE HAITIAN LEXICON; INDEX OF AUTHORS; INDEX OF SUBJECTS

Sommario/riassunto

The content of this book is concerned with various issues at stake in Creole studies that are also of interest for general linguistics. These include the general issue of Creole genesis and of the accelerated linguistic change that characterizes the emergence of these languages as compared to ordinary cases of linguistic change, the problem of the development of morphology in incipient Creoles, the problem of the validity of data in linguistic analysis, the issue of multifunctionality as regards the concept of lexical entry, the question of whether Creole languages are semantically more transp