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McWhorter John H. |
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Defining creole / / John H. McWhorter |
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Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2005 |
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©2005 |
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0-19-804441-0 |
1-280-53402-8 |
1-4237-2076-8 |
0-19-534723-4 |
1-4337-0085-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (435 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Creole dialects - Grammar |
Creole dialects - Lexicology |
Creole dialects - Inflection |
Linguistic change |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Part I: Is There Such a Thing as a Creole?; 1. Defining "Creole" as a Synchronic Term; 2. The World's Simplest Grammars Are Creole Grammars; 3. The Rest of the Story: Restoring Pidginization to Creole Genesis Theory; 4. Saramaccan and Haitian as Young Grammars: The Pitfalls of Syntactocentrism in Creole Genesis Research; 5. The Founder Principle versus the Creole Prototype: Squaring Theory with Data; Part II: Is Creole Change Different from Language Change in Older Languages?; 6. Looking into the Void: Zero Copula in the Creole Mesolect |
7. The Diachrony of Predicate Negation in Saramaccan Creole: Synchronic and Typological Implications8. Sisters under the Skin: A Case for Genetic Relationship between the Atlantic English-Based Creoles; 9. Creole Transplantation: A Source of Solutions to Resistant Anomalies; 10. Creoles, Intertwined Languages, and "Bicultural |
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