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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782071703321

Titolo

Creoles, contact, and language change : linguistics and social implications / / edited by Geneviève Escure, Armin Schwegler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

1-282-16020-6

9786612160202

90-272-9508-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 354 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Creole language library Creoles, contact, and language change

Altri autori (Persone)

EscureGenevieve

Disciplina

417/.22

Soggetti

Creole dialects

Languages in contact

Linguistic change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of creolists' current research interests. All of the contributions address questions directly relevant to pidgin/creole studies and other contact languages. The majority of papers address issues of morphology or syntax.