LEADER 05054nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910808728703321 005 20240516165535.0 010 $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 /$fedited by Umberto Ansaldo 205 $a1st ed. 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. Conclusion; References; Index 330 $aThis book shifts the focus of Pidgin and Creole Studies from the better-known Atlantic/Caribbean contexts to the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea and Mongolia. By looking at Asian contexts before and after Western colonial expansion, we offer readers insights into language contact in historical settings and with empirical features substantially different from those that have shaped the theory of the field. Two pidgin varieties of the Far East are described in detail, namely Chinese-Pidgin Russian and China Coast Pidgin. The former offers a unique opportunity to observe the typological dynamic 410 0$aBenjamins current topics ;$vv. 38. 606 $aPidgin languages$zAsia 606 $aCreole dialects$zAsia 606 $aLanguages in contact$zAsia 615 0$aPidgin languages 615 0$aCreole dialects 615 0$aLanguages in contact 676 $a417/.22095 701 $aAnsaldo$b Umberto$01599179 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808728703321 996 $aPidgins and Creoles in Asia$93921756 997 $aUNINA