Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language : Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole / / by William Jennings, Stefan Pfänder
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| Autore: |
Jennings William (William John), (Lecturer in French)
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| Titolo: |
Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language : Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole / / by William Jennings, Stefan Pfänder
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XIV, 240 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 417.7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Linguistic change |
| African languages | |
| Historical linguistics | |
| Romance languages | |
| Sociolinguistics | |
| Language Change | |
| African Languages | |
| Historical Linguistics | |
| Language History | |
| Romance Languages | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | PfänderStefan |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the authors employ this dual methodology to reconstruct how multilingual individuals drew on their perception of Romance and West African languages to form French Guianese Creole. In doing so, they facilitate the application of a usage-based approach to language while simultaneously contributing significantly to the debate on creole origins. This innovative volume is sure to appeal to students and scholars of language history, creolisation and languages in contact. William Jennings is Senior Lecturer in French language, linguistics and culture at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research interests lie primarily within French colonial and encounter history, with a particular focus on the emergence of creole languages and societies. Stefan Pfänder is Full Professor of Romance linguistics at Albert-Ludwigs-Universitäts Freiburg, Germany. His teaching focuses on French, Spanish, Italian and Creole, while his research centres around the emergence of grammatical constructions in interaction, and usage-based models of language variation and change. Chapter 3 is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language |
| ISBN: | 3-319-61952-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910300564203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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