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UNINA9910974216803321 |
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Autore |
McWhorter John H. |
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Titolo |
Defining creole / / John H. McWhorter |
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New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
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9780190290405 |
0190290404 |
9780197721490 |
0197721494 |
9780198044413 |
0198044410 |
9781280534027 |
1280534028 |
9781423720768 |
1423720768 |
9780195347234 |
0195347234 |
9781433700859 |
1433700859 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (435 pages) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online. |
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Soggetti |
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Creole dialects - Grammar |
Creole dialects - Lexicology |
Creole dialects - Inflection |
Linguistic change |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2005. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Part I: Is There Such a Thing as a Creole?; 1. Defining "Creole" as a Synchronic Term; 2. The World's Simplest Grammars Are Creole Grammars; 3. The Rest of the Story: Restoring Pidginization to Creole Genesis Theory; 4. Saramaccan and Haitian as Young Grammars: The Pitfalls of Syntactocentrism in Creole Genesis Research; 5. The Founder Principle versus the Creole Prototype: Squaring Theory with Data; Part |
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II: Is Creole Change Different from Language Change in Older Languages?; 6. Looking into the Void: Zero Copula in the Creole Mesolect |
7. The Diachrony of Predicate Negation in Saramaccan Creole: Synchronic and Typological Implications8. Sisters under the Skin: A Case for Genetic Relationship between the Atlantic English-Based Creoles; 9. Creole Transplantation: A Source of Solutions to Resistant Anomalies; 10. Creoles, Intertwined Languages, and "Bicultural Identity"; Part III: The Gray Zone: The Cline of Pidginization or the Inflectional Parameter?; 11. What Happened to English?; 12. Inflectional Morphology and Universal Grammar: Post Hoc versus Propter Hoc; 13. Strange Bedfellows: Recovering the Origins of Black English |
NotesReferences; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
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Collecting recent work by John H. McWhorter on creole languages & their origins, this volume showcases many of his novel & controversial theories, including the claim that the differences between creoles & their source languages is much more than a matter of inflection. |
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UNINA9910892501803321 |
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Advances in environmental and engineering research |
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Beachwood, OH : , : LIDSEN Publishing Inc. |
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