Synchronic and diachronic perspectives on contact languages / / edited by Magnus Huber, Viveka Velupillai

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xii, 370 p. : ill., maps
• Disciplina: 417/.22
• Soggetto topico: Creole dialects; Languages, Mixed
• Altri autori: HuberMagnus VelupillaiViveka <1974->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Part I -- 1. Maintenance or assimilation? -- 2. Universal and substrate infl uence on the phonotactics and syllable structure of Krio -- 3. Tone on quantifiers in Saramaccan as a transferred feature from Kikongo -- 4. Morphophonological properties of pitch accents in Jamaican Creole reduplication -- 5. Effort reduction and the grammar -- Part II -- 6. Reflexivity in Capeverdean -- 7. An additional pronoun and hierarchies in Lower Columbia Chin ú k Wawa -- 8. Three irregular verbs in Gullah -- 9. Afro-Bolivian Spanish -- 10. Copula patterns in Hawai'i Creole -- Part III -- 11. On the properties of Papiamentu pa -- 12. No exception to the rule -- 13. A look at so in Mauritian Creole -- 14. Chinese Spanish in 19th-century Cuba -- 15. Comparative perspectives on the origins, development and structure of Amazonian (Karipúna) French Creole -- Index -- The series Creole Language Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of selected conference papers from three SPCL meetings brings together a cross-fertilization of approaches to the study of contact languages. The articles are grouped into three coherent sections dealing with, respectively, phonetics and phonology, including Optimality Theory; synchronic analyses of both morphology and syntax; and diachronic tracings of language change, with special focus on sound patterns as well as semantics. An added value of the volume is that most of the articles are in various ways significant for more than one linguistic subgrouping, and there is a significant overlap of interests; the sections also cover sociolinguistic subjects, give both theoretical and functional linguistic analyses of language data, and discuss issues of grammaticalization. Thus, in discussing a number of issues relevant far beyond the study of pidgin and creole languages, as well as providing a wealth of linguistic data, this volume also contributes to the broader field of linguistics in general.
• Titolo autorizzato: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives on contact languages
• ISBN: 1-282-15266-1; 9786612152665; 90-272-9201-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826608803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Creole language library ; ; v. 32.