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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790849403321

Titolo

Creole languages and linguistic typology / / edited by Parth Bhatt and Tonjes Veenstra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

90-272-7107-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 pages)

Collana

Benjamins current topics, , 1874-0081 ; ; volume 57

Altri autori (Persone)

BhattParth <1955->

VeenstraTonjes <1962->

Disciplina

417/.22

Soggetti

Creole dialects

Typology (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Creoles are typologically distinct from non-Creoles / Peter Bakker, Aymeric Daval-Markussen, Mikael Parkvall, and Ingo Plag -- Typologizing grammatical complexities, or why Creoles may be paradigmatically simple but syntagmatically average / Jeff Good -- Pidgin-Creoles as a scattered sprachbund : comparing Kriyol and Nubi / Alain Kihm -- Creolization and admixture : typology, feature pools, and second language acquisition / Ingo Plag -- The Gulf of Guinea Creoles : genetic and typological relations / Tjerk Hagemeijer -- Typology of Creole phonology : phoneme inventories and syllable templates / Thomas B. Klein -- The typology of Caribbean Creole reduplication / Silvia Kouwenberg and Darlene LaCharité.