02020nam 2200613 a 450 991045377010332120210106234954.01-282-16362-0978661216362390-272-9948-X(CKB)1000000000579755(OCoLC)70731713(CaPaEBR)ebrary10014698(SSID)ssj0000281257(PQKBManifestationID)11253953(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000281257(PQKBWorkID)10301057(PQKB)10473446(MiAaPQ)EBC622742(EXLCZ)99100000000057975520150424d2000|||| s|| |engtxtccrLanguage Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles[electronic resource]Philadelphia, PA, USAJohn Benjamins Publishing Company20000501John Benjamins Publishing Company1 online resource (512 p.)Creole language library Language change and language contact in pidgins and creolesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-55619-668-7 90-272-5243-2 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINESbisacLinguistics / GeneralbisacPidgin languagesCongressesCreole dialectsCongressesLanguages in contactCongressesLinguistic changeCongressesLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINESLinguistics / GeneralPidgin languagesCreole dialectsLanguages in contactLinguistic change417/.22McWhorter John943286McWHORTER JohnSociety for Pidgin and Creole LinguisticsPQKBBOOK9910453770103321Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles2128882UNINA02433nam 2200625 a 450 991097414470332120251117080816.00-19-163697-51-280-59445-497866136242840-19-163696-7(CKB)2670000000170601(EBL)886547(OCoLC)784886687(SSID)ssj0000640838(PQKBManifestationID)12220997(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000640838(PQKBWorkID)10622724(PQKB)10809442(MiAaPQ)EBC886547(Au-PeEL)EBL886547(CaPaEBR)ebr10537848(CaONFJC)MIL362428(MiAaPQ)EBC7033601(Au-PeEL)EBL7033601(OCoLC)741540914(FINmELB)ELB167325(OCoLC)787844556(EXLCZ)99267000000017060120111213d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSaussure /John E. Joseph1st ed.Oxford Oxford Unievrsity Press20121 online resource (793 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-969565-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. The world into which he was born -- pt. 2. Early years to the mémoire -- pt. 3. Doctorate and Paris years -- pt. 4. Return to Geneva -- pt. 5. Final flourish.""In a language there are only differences without positive terms. Whether we take the signified or the signifier, the language contains neither ideas nor sounds that pre-exist the linguistic system, but only conceptual differences and phonic differences issuing from this system."" (From the posthumous Course in General Linguistics, 1916.). No one becomes as famous as Saussure without both admirers and detractors reducing them to a paragraph's worth of ideas that can be readily quoted, debated, memorized, and examined. One can argue the ideas expressed above - that language is composed of aLinguistsBiographyLinguists410Joseph John Earl161427MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910974144703321Saussure4464675UNINA