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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826449103321

Titolo

Issues in English creoles : papers from the 1975 Hawaii conference / / editor, Richard R. Day

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Heidelberg, : Groos, c1980

ISBN

1-283-01241-3

9786613012418

90-272-8671-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 pages)

Collana

Varieties of English around the world. General series ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

DayRichard R

Disciplina

427

Soggetti

Creole dialects, English

Pidgin languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers first presented at the International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, January 5-10, 1975.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies.

Nota di contenuto

Issues in English Creoles; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CREOLIZATION, LINGUISTIC UNIVERSALS, NATURAL SEMANTAX AND THE BRAIN; THE ADEQUACY OF CERTAIN THEORIES IN ACCOUNTING FOR IMPORTANT GRAMMATICAL RELATIONSHIPS IN A CREOLE LANGUAGE; ON THE NOTION OF DECREOLIZATION AND ST. KITTS CREOLE PERSONAL PRONOUNS; THE CREOLE SITUATION IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDIES; HOW DOES DOZ DISAPPEAR?; FROM PREPOSITION TO COMPLEMENTIZER IN CARIBBEAN ENGLISH CREOLE; A CREOLE ENGLISH CONTINUUM AND THE THEORY OF GRAMMAR; BAHAMIAN ENGLISH--A NON-CONTINUUM?

SUFFICIENCY CONDITIONS FOR A PRIOR CREOLIZATION OF BLACK ENGLISHLEXICALIZATION IN BLACK ENGLISH; APPENDIX

Sommario/riassunto

The purpose of this volume is to make more accessible, for the use of researchers and students in the field of pidgins and creoles, presentations of the third International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Honolulu, 1975, dealing with English-based creoles. Aside from their documentary value, the ten papers of this volume are of interest for several reasons: they contain interesting data and observations on the languages themselves, in particular Trinidadian Creole, Guyanese Creole, St. Kitts Creole, and Bahamian English.