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Record Nr.

UNINA9910146113803321

Titolo

The handbook of Pidgin and Creole studies / / edited by Silvia Kouwenberg and John Victor Singler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell Pub., 2008

ISBN

1-282-02625-9

1-78034-190-3

9786612026256

0-470-70472-1

1-4443-3167-1

1-4443-0598-0

1-4443-0599-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (704 p.)

Collana

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

KouwenbergSilvia <1960->

SinglerJohn Victor

Disciplina

417/.22

Soggetti

Pidgin languages

Creole dialects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction SILVIA KOUWENBERG AND JOHN VICTOR SINGLER; Part I Properties of Pidgins and Creoles; 2 Atlantic Creole Syntax DONALD WINFORD; 3 Forging Pacific Pidgin and Creole Syntax: Substrate, Discourse, and Inherent Variability MIRIAM MEYERHOFF; 4 Pidgin and Creole Morphology TERRY CROWLEY; 5 Creole Phonology NORVAL S. H. SMITH; 6 Pidgins versus Creoles and Pidgincreoles PETER BAKKER; 7 Non-Indo-European Pidgins and Creoles KEES VERSTEEGH; Part II Perspectives on Pidgin/Creole Genesis

8 Pidgins/Creoles and Second Language Acquisition JEFF SIEGEL9 Creole Genesis: The Impact of the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis TONJES VEENSTRA; 10 Pidgins/Creoles and Historical Linguistics SARAH G. THOMASON; 11 Pidgins/Creoles and Contact Languages: An Overview RAJEND MESTHRIE; 12 Creole Studies and Multilingualism PIETER MUYSKEN; 13 A Demographic Perspective on Creole Formation



JACQUES ARENDS; 14 The Sociohistorical Context of Creole Genesis JOHN VICTOR SINGLER; 15 The Cultural in Pidgin Genesis CHRISTINE JOURDAN; Part III Pidgins/Creoles and Linguistic Explanation

16 Grammaticalization in Pidgins and Creoles ADRIENNE BRUYN17 Creoles,Markedness, and Default Settings: An Appraisal ALAIN KIHM; 18 Semantic Evidence in Pidgin and Creole Genesis GEORGE HUTTAR; 19 Pidgins,Creoles,and Variation PETER L.PATRICK; Part IV Pidgins/Creoles and Kindred Languages; 20 The Case of Signed Languages in the Context of Pidgin and Creole Studies JUDY KEGL; 21 Pidgins/Creoles and African American English ARTHUR K.SPEARS; 22 Spanish-Based Creoles in the Caribbean JOHN M. LIPSKI; Part V Pidgins/Creoles in Society; 23 Pidgins/Creoles and Discourse GENEVIÈVE ESCURE

24 Pidgins/Creoles and Education DENNIS CRAIG25 Language Planning in Pidgins and Creoles HUBERT DEVONISH; 26 Literary Representations of Creole Languages: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives from the Caribbean HÉLÈNE BUZELIN AND LISE WINER; Author Index; Language Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies. A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studiesBrings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor teamAccessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole