Issues in the study of Pidgin and Creole languages [[electronic resource] /] / Claire Lefebvre
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Lefebvre Claire
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| Titolo: |
Issues in the study of Pidgin and Creole languages [[electronic resource] /] / Claire Lefebvre
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (374 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 417/.22 |
| Soggetto topico: | Pidgin languages |
| Creole dialects | |
| Creole dialects, French - Haiti | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2. THE GENESIS OF PIDGIN AND CREOLE LANGUAGES A STATE OF THE ART; CHAPTER 3. THE RELEXIFICATION ACCOUNT OF CREOLE GENESIS THE CASE OF HAITIAN CREOLE; CHAPTER 4. WHAT DO CREOLE STUDIES HAVE TO OFFER TO MAINSTREAM LINGUISTICS?; CHAPTER 5. ON DATA; CHAPTER 6. MULTIFUNCTIONALITY AND THE CONCEPT OF LEXICAL ENTRY; CHAPTER 7. ON THE SEMANTIC OPACITY OF CREOLE LANGUAGES |
| CHAPTER 8. DO CREOLE LANGUAGES REALLY FORM A TYPOLOGICAL CLASS?CHAPTER 9. THE INTERPLAY OF RELEXIFICATION AND LEVELLING IN CREOLE GENESIS AND DEVELOPMENT; CHAPTER 10. THE EMERGENCE OF PRODUCTIVE MORPHOLOGY IN CREOLE LANGUAGES THE CASE OF HAITIAN CREOLE; REFERENCES; APPENDIX 1. A RESEARCH PROGRAMME ON PC GENESIS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY; APPENDIX 2. THE COMPOSITION OF THE HAITIAN LEXICON; INDEX OF AUTHORS; INDEX OF SUBJECTS | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The content of this book is concerned with various issues at stake in Creole studies that are also of interest for general linguistics. These include the general issue of Creole genesis and of the accelerated linguistic change that characterizes the emergence of these languages as compared to ordinary cases of linguistic change, the problem of the development of morphology in incipient Creoles, the problem of the validity of data in linguistic analysis, the issue of multifunctionality as regards the concept of lexical entry, the question of whether Creole languages are semantically more transp |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Issues in the study of Pidgin and Creole languages |
| ISBN: | 1-283-28028-0 |
| 9786613280282 | |
| 90-272-8185-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910461432103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in language companion series ; ; v. 70.