The structure and status of pidgins and creoles : including selected papers from the meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics / / editors, Arthur K. Spears, Donald Winford

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins, , 1997; ©1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 461 pages) : illustrations, map
• Disciplina: 417/.22
• Soggetto topico: Pidgin languages; Creole dialects
• Altri autori: SpearsArthur K <1943-> (Arthur Kean) WinfordDonald
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: section 1. Terminology and typology -- section 2. Process and evolution -- section 3. Sources and genesis -- section 4. Questions of status -- section 5. Aspects of structure.
• Sommario/riassunto: Destined to become a landmark work, this book is devoted principally to a reassessment of the content, categories, boundaries, and basic assumptions of pidgin and creole studies. It includes revised and elaborated papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in addition to commissioned papers from leading scholars in the field. As a group, the papers undertake this reassessment through a reevaluation of pidgin/creole terminology and contact language typology (Section One); a requestioning of process and evolution in pidginization, creolization, and other language conta
• Titolo autorizzato: The structure and status of pidgins and creoles
• ISBN: 1-283-32780-5; 9786613327802; 90-272-7585-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827344203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Creole language library ; ; 19.