Defining creole / / John H. McWhorter
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| Autore: |
McWhorter John H.
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| Titolo: |
Defining creole / / John H. McWhorter
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2005 |
| ©2005 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (435 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 417/.22 |
| Soggetto topico: | Creole dialects - Grammar |
| Creole dialects - Lexicology | |
| Creole dialects - Inflection | |
| Linguistic change | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Part I: Is There Such a Thing as a Creole?; 1. Defining "Creole" as a Synchronic Term; 2. The World's Simplest Grammars Are Creole Grammars; 3. The Rest of the Story: Restoring Pidginization to Creole Genesis Theory; 4. Saramaccan and Haitian as Young Grammars: The Pitfalls of Syntactocentrism in Creole Genesis Research; 5. The Founder Principle versus the Creole Prototype: Squaring Theory with Data; Part II: Is Creole Change Different from Language Change in Older Languages?; 6. Looking into the Void: Zero Copula in the Creole Mesolect |
| 7. The Diachrony of Predicate Negation in Saramaccan Creole: Synchronic and Typological Implications8. Sisters under the Skin: A Case for Genetic Relationship between the Atlantic English-Based Creoles; 9. Creole Transplantation: A Source of Solutions to Resistant Anomalies; 10. Creoles, Intertwined Languages, and "Bicultural Identity"; Part III: The Gray Zone: The Cline of Pidginization or the Inflectional Parameter?; 11. What Happened to English?; 12. Inflectional Morphology and Universal Grammar: Post Hoc versus Propter Hoc; 13. Strange Bedfellows: Recovering the Origins of Black English | |
| NotesReferences; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Gathers articles on creole languages and their origins, by John H McWhorter, a unique and often controversial scholar in the field. This book is of interest to scholars and students of creole and pidgin studies, and lingustics more broadly. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Defining creole |
| ISBN: | 0-19-772149-4 |
| 0-19-804441-0 | |
| 1-280-53402-8 | |
| 1-4237-2076-8 | |
| 0-19-534723-4 | |
| 1-4337-0085-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783678503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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