LEADER 02426 am 22004813u 450 001 9910318334403321 005 20221206182146.0 010 $a3-96110-133-7 024 7 $a10.5281/zenodo.2546450 035 $a(CKB)4100000007992689 035 $a(OAPEN)1004852 035 $a(ScCtBLL)e8fe7692-217a-4467-b577-2b95c50ca2c2 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31869 035 $a(PPN)243675690 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007992689 100 $a20200310h20192019 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA grammar of Pichi /$fKofi Yakpo 210 $aBerlin$cLanguage Science Press$d2019 210 1$aBerlin, Germany :$cLanguage Science Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 623 pages) $cmaps; PDF, digital file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in diversity linguistics ;$v23 311 $a3-96110-134-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 330 $aPichi is an Afro-Caribbean English-lexifier Creole spoken on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. It is an offshoot of 19th century Krio (Sierra Leone) and shares many characteristics with West African relatives like Nigerian Pidgin, Cameroon Pidgin, and Ghanaian Pidgin English, as well as with the English-lexifier creoles of the insular and continental Caribbean. This comprehensive description presents a detailed analysis of the grammar and phonology of Pichi. It also includes a collection of texts and wordlists. Pichi features a nominative-accusative alignment, SVO word order, adjective-noun order, prenominal determiners, and prepositions. The language has a seven-vowel system and twenty-two consonant phonemes. Pichi has a two-tone system with tonal minimal pairs, morphological tone, and tonal processes. The morphological structure is largely isolating. 410 0$aStudies in diversity linguistics ;$v23. 606 $aCreole dialects, English$xGrammar$zEquatorial Guinea 606 $aLinguistics$2bicssc 610 $aLinguistics 610 $aCreole Languages 615 0$aCreole dialects, English$xGrammar 615 7$aLinguistics 700 $aYakpo$b Kofi$pHUA$0941447 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910318334403321 996 $aA grammar of Pichi$92123649 997 $aUNINA