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Autore |
McWhorter John H |
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Titolo |
Linguistic simplicity and complexity [[electronic resource] ] : why do languages undress? / / by John H. McWhorter |
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Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-39634-3 |
9786613396341 |
1-934078-40-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Collana |
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Language contact and bilingualism, , 2190-698X ; ; 1 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Complexity (Linguistics) |
Second language acquisition |
Languages in contact |
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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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Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction The creole litmus test and the NCSL challenge -- I Creole exceptionalism -- Introduction to Section I -- Chapter 1 The creole prototype revisited and revised -- Chapter 2 Comparative complexity: What the creolist learns from Cantonese and Kabardian -- Chapter 3 Reconstructing creole: Has "Creole Exceptionalism" been seriously engaged? -- II Creole complexity -- Introduction to Section II -- Chapter 4 Oh, nɔɔ!: Emergent pragmatic marking from a bewilderingly multifunctional word -- Chapter 5 Hither and thither in Saramaccan Creole -- Chapter 6 Complexity hotspot: The copula in Saramaccan -- III Exceptional language change elsewhere -- Introduction to Section III -- Chapter 7 Why does a language undress? The Riau Indonesian problem -- Chapter 8 Affixless in Austronesian: Why Flores is a puzzle and what to do about it -- Chapter 9 A brief for the Celtic hypothesis: English in Box 5? -- References -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In John McWhorter's Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense. His publications since the 1990's have argued that |
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