Language change and language contact in pidgins and creoles / / edited by John McWhorter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812443603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2000
• ISBN: 1-282-16362-0; 9786612163623; 90-272-9948-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 503 pages)
• Collana: Creole language library, , 0920-9026 ; ; v. 21
• Altri autori (Persone): McWhorterJohn H
• Disciplina: 417/.22
• Soggetti: Pidgin languages; Creole dialects; Languages in contact; Linguistic change
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Fifteen papers selected from those presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held Jan. 1996 in San Diego, Jan. 1997 in Chicago, and June 1997 in London.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: LANGUAGE CHANGE AND LANGUAGE CONTACT IN PIDGINS AND CREOLES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Contents -- Preface -- Verb Movement in four Creole Languages: A Comparative Analysis -- Notes on Componential Diffusion in the Genesis of the Kabuverdianu Cluster -- "High" Kwéyòl: The Emergence of a Formal Creole Register in St. Lucia -- From Latin to Early Romance: A Case of Partial Creolization? -- The Creole Verb: A Comparative Study of Stativity and Time Reference -- Are Creole Languages "Perfect" Languages? -- The Origin of the Syntax and Semantics of Property Items in the Surinamese Plantation Creole -- Variable Concord in Portuguese: The Situation in Brazil and Portugal -- Nativization and the genesis of Hawaiian Creole -- The Status of Sango in Fact and Fiction: On the one-hundredth anniversary of its conception -- Optimality Theory, the Minimal-Word Constraint, and the Historical Sequencing of Substrate Influence in Pidgin/Creole Genesis -- The Story of kom in Nigerian Pidgin English -- Tense and Aspect in Sranan and the Creole ; Prototype -- Chaos and Creoles: Towards a New Paradigm? -- Wh-words and Question Formation in Pidgin/Creole Languages -- Index -- the CREOLE LANGUAGE LIBRARY series.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly argue for controversial positions.