LEADER 05090nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910452253803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-67688-4 010 $a9786613653819 010 $a90-272-7415-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000000103341 035 $a(EBL)923290 035 $a(OCoLC)794663749 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000657964 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12284001 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000657964 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10680774 035 $a(PQKB)11618123 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC923290 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL923290 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10565399 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL365381 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000103341 100 $a20120418d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aPidgins and Creoles in Asia$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Umberto Ansaldo 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia $cJohn Benjamins Pub. Co.$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (180 p.) 225 1 $aBenjamins current topics,$x1874-0081 ;$vv. 38 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-272-0257-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPidgins and Creoles in Asia; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword; Chinese Pidgin Russian; 1. Introduction; 2. Sources and a brief history; 2.1 Scholarship on CPR; 2.2 Spelling norms and lexicon; 3. Phonology; 4. Morphology; 4.1 Non-verbs; 4.1.1 Pronouns; 4.2 Verbs; 4.3 Sentence-final particles; 4.3.1 Tense/Aspect; 4.3.2 Negation; 5. Syntax; 5.1 Basic word order; 5.2 Thematic roles and syntactic functions; 5.2.1 Agent/topic marker; 5.2.2 Location/direction markers; 5.2.3 Subject/object markers; 5.3 NP word order; 5.4 Word order in questions 327 $a5.5 Postpositions and prepositions5.6 Comparatives; 6. Vocabulary; 6.1 Direct borrowings from languages other than Russian; 6.2 Calques; 7. Conclusions; References; Appendix; China Coast Pidgin; 1. Introduction; 2. History of CCP; 2.1 The British and Portuguese presence in Southern China; 2.2 The Canton System; 2.3 The nature of Chinese-Western contacts; 2.4 Development and decay of CCP; 3. CCP sources and previous scholarship; 3.1 The Redhaired Glossary; 3.2 The Instructor; 3.3 Previous views on CCP; 4. Grammar; 4.1 Words and sounds; 4.2 Nouns and NPs; 4.3 Copulas, zeros and existence 327 $a4.4 Placement of adverbs and prepositional phrases4.5 Tense and aspect; 4.6 Wh-interrogatives in Chinese and Western sources; 4.7 Topic-comment and discourse structure; 4.8 The verb makee; 5. Conclusion; References; African slave population of Portuguese India; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The relationship between the Asian and African creoles; 1.2 The relationship between the Asian creoles and African languages; 2. Africans in India prior to European colonial presence; 3. Africans in India as a result of European colonial activities; 3.1 Terminology in Portuguese documents; 3.2 Origins of the slaves 327 $a3.3 Demography3.3.1 Goa; 3.3.2 The Provi?ncia do Norte; 4. Discussion; References; Vestiges of etymological gender in Malacca Creole Portuguese; 1. Introduction; 2. The language; 3. The basis for the study; 4. Framework for the discussion; 5. Data and procedures; 6. Vestigial etymological gender: derivational morphemes in MCP?; 7. Does MCP have vestiges of contextual gender inflection?; 8. The status of gender morphology in MCP; 9. Did diglossia cease when the Dutch conquered Malacca?; 10. Conclusion; Abbreviations; References; Bazaar Malay topics; 1. Introduction; 2. Topic prominence 327 $a3. English-style topic structure4. Chinese-style topic structure; 5. Bare conditionals; 6. Multiple topics and multiple comments; 7. Comparing Topic prominence in Singapore English; 8. 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