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Deconstructing Creole [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim
| Deconstructing Creole [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | ix, 290 p |
| Disciplina | 417/.22 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AnsaldoUmberto
MatthewsStephen <1963-> LimLisa |
| Collana | Typological studies in language |
| Soggetto topico |
Creole dialects
Typology (Linguistics) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-15451-6
9786612154515 90-272-9239-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454283103321 |
| Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Deconstructing Creole [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim
| Deconstructing Creole [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | ix, 290 p |
| Disciplina | 417/.22 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AnsaldoUmberto
MatthewsStephen <1963-> LimLisa |
| Collana | Typological studies in language |
| Soggetto topico |
Creole dialects
Typology (Linguistics) |
| ISBN |
1-282-15451-6
9786612154515 90-272-9239-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782177503321 |
| Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Deconstructing Creole / / edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim
| Deconstructing Creole / / edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | ix, 290 p |
| Disciplina | 417/.22 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AnsaldoUmberto
MatthewsStephen <1963-> LimLisa |
| Collana | Typological studies in language |
| Soggetto topico |
Creole dialects
Typology (Linguistics) |
| ISBN |
1-282-15451-6
9786612154515 90-272-9239-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Deconstructing Creole -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Deconstructing creole -- 1 On deconstruction -- 2 Deconstructing creole -- 2.1 Creole studies and linguistics -- 2.2 Introducing the volume -- 3 History of beliefs -- 3.1 A brief history of creole ideas -- 3.2 From the Language Bioprogram to the Creole Prototype -- 3.3 Creole myths -- 3.3.1 The myth of simplicity -- 3.3.2 The myth of decreolization -- 3.3.3 The myth of exceptional diachrony -- 4 Final remarks -- References -- Part 1. Typology and grammar -- Creole morphology revisited -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Word-formation -- 2.1 Af xation -- 2.2 Reduplication -- 2.3 Compounding -- 2.4 Zero-derivation -- 3 Transparency -- 4 In ectional morphology -- 4.1 Af xational in ectional morphology -- 4.2 Reduplicative in ectional morphology -- 5 Complex morphology -- 5.1 Complex morphology as in ectional (af xational) morphology? -- 5.2 Complexity and age -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- The role of typology in language creation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Contact languages and 'simple grammars' -- 2.1 Inflection and simplification -- 2.2 The Noun Phrase as a case study for competition and selection -- 2.3 The Feature Pool -- 2.4 Simplification again -- 3 Competition and selection in English, Gbe and the Suriname creoles -- 3 1 Properties of the noun phrase in English, Gungbe and the Suriname creoles -- 3.2 The function of determiners in the competing languages and the emerging creole -- 3.3 Intertwining syntax and semantics -- 3.4 Summary -- 4 Congruence, frequency and replication in Sri Lanka Malay -- 4.1 Morpheme sources -- 4.2 Structural features of case in SLM, Sinhala and Tamil -- 4.3 Functional alignments -- 4.4 Summary -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Creoles, complexity and associational semantics -- 1 Creoles and complexity.
2 Associational semantics -- 3 Associational semantics and complexity -- 4 Measuring complexity: The association experiment -- 4.1 Experimental design -- 4.2 Running the experiment -- 5 Results -- 6 Further questions: Why languages vary and why languages "undress" -- References -- Admixture and after -- 1 The Creole Prototype -- 2 Introduction to the Chamic languages -- 3 Where the Chamic Languages fit in genealogically -- 4 Influences on the Chamic languages: Whence and where -- 5 Lexical elements of unknown origin in Chamic -- 6 Aspects of Chamic typology: Phonology, morphology and syntax -- 7 Transfer of fabric in Chamic: The lexicon -- 8 How Indochinese Chamic Languages 'got this way': The replication of the effects of the Creole Prototype as a dynamic diachronic process -- 9 Conclusions -- References -- Relexification and pidgin development -- 1 Preliminaries -- 2 The CDP sentence: Relexification and stripping (and more) -- 2.1 SOV word order and the history of CDP -- 2.2 Relexification and stripping -- 2.3 Relexification and Pro-drop -- 2.4 Negation, temporal anchoring and 'have' and 'be' -- 2.5 Looking ahead -- 3 CDP DPs: Relexification, stripping and adaptation -- 3.1 DP-internal Word Order -- 3.2 Petrified endings? Nominalizations? -- 3.3 Conclusion -- 4 CDP PPs -- 5 CDP clauses again -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Part 2. Sociohistorical contexts -- Transmission and transfer -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Transmission of the lexifier -- 2.1 Break in transmission -- 2.2 Normal transmission -- 2.2.1 Lack of evidence of a pre-existing pidgin -- 2.2.2 Existence in some creoles of morphology from the lexifier -- 2.2.3 Conventional language change -- 2.3 Discussion -- 3 Transmission of substrate features -- 3.1 Language transfer -- 3.2 Substrate reinforcement -- 4 Associated ideologies. 4.1 The development of post-colonial ideology in the 'New World' -- 4.2 Discussion -- 4.3 'Imperfect' learning -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- The sociolinguistic history of the Peranakans -- 1 Creoles and the notion of 'creolization' -- 2 The Peranakan population and the genesis of Baba Malay -- 2.1 The non-traumatic birth of the Peranakans -- 2.2 Multilingualism and the nature of transmission -- 2.3 The Peranakans as privileged British subjects -- 2.4 Baba Malay features -- 2.5 Summary and reflections -- 3 Final remarks -- References -- The complexity that really matters -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Purpose -- 2 Interaction, not simply 'access' -- 2.1 Correlating colonization and types of interaction -- 3 Beyond correlation: The descriptive and explanatory power of the Matrix of Creolization in relation to key debates in creolistics -- 4 Toward a typology of colonization and creolization: Political economy and the continua, matrix, and space of Afro-Caribbean creolization -- 4.1 Superstrate economies -- 4.2 Superstrate ideologies, cultures, and linguistics -- 4.3 Superstrate politics -- 4.4 Substrate economies -- 4.5 Substrate ideologies, cultures, and linguistics -- 4.6 Substrate politics -- 5 Conclusion: The linguistic outcomes -- References -- Creole metaphors in cultural analysis -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ideologies in creole linguistics -- 3 Creole language study and the shift in linguistics -- 4 Interaction as a site of 'transcultural' encounter -- 4.1 Interactional siting: Ritual and remedial interchanges -- 4.2 Processes of symbolic evocation: Historical consciousness in situated code-switching -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Transcription conventions -- Index -- Typological Studies in Language. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823244603321 |
| Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Parts of speech [[electronic resource] ] : empirical and theoretical advances / / edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau
| Parts of speech [[electronic resource] ] : empirical and theoretical advances / / edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | vi, 291 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 415 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AnsaldoUmberto
DonJan <1963-> PfauRoland |
| Collana | Benjamins current topics |
| Soggetto topico |
Parts of speech
Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammatical categories Linguistic universals |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-77501-4
9786612775017 90-272-8771-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Parts of Speech: Particulars, universals and theoretical constructs / Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau -- Word classes in sign languages: Criteria and classifications / Waldemar Schwager and Ulrike Zeshan -- Roots, stems and word classes / Christian Lehmann -- Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech: The case of Late Archaic Chinese / Walter Bisang -- Covert word classes: Seeking your own syntax in Tukang Besi / Mark Donohue -- Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan / Yulia Koloskova and Toshio Ohori -- The acquisition of syntactic categories in Jakarta Indonesian / David Gil -- Possible phonological cues in categorial acquisition Evidence from adult categorization /Jan Don and Marian Erkelens -- Lexical semantic constraints on noun roots and noun borrowability / Lynn Nichols -- Degree words, intensification, and word class distinctions in Romance languages / Ventura Salazar-García -- On flexible and rigid nouns / Jan Rijkhoff. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459352203321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Parts of speech [[electronic resource] ] : empirical and theoretical advances / / edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau
| Parts of speech [[electronic resource] ] : empirical and theoretical advances / / edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | vi, 291 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 415 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AnsaldoUmberto
DonJan <1963-> PfauRoland |
| Collana | Benjamins current topics |
| Soggetto topico |
Parts of speech
Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammatical categories Linguistic universals |
| ISBN |
1-282-77501-4
9786612775017 90-272-8771-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Parts of Speech: Particulars, universals and theoretical constructs / Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau -- Word classes in sign languages: Criteria and classifications / Waldemar Schwager and Ulrike Zeshan -- Roots, stems and word classes / Christian Lehmann -- Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech: The case of Late Archaic Chinese / Walter Bisang -- Covert word classes: Seeking your own syntax in Tukang Besi / Mark Donohue -- Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan / Yulia Koloskova and Toshio Ohori -- The acquisition of syntactic categories in Jakarta Indonesian / David Gil -- Possible phonological cues in categorial acquisition Evidence from adult categorization /Jan Don and Marian Erkelens -- Lexical semantic constraints on noun roots and noun borrowability / Lynn Nichols -- Degree words, intensification, and word class distinctions in Romance languages / Ventura Salazar-García -- On flexible and rigid nouns / Jan Rijkhoff. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785257403321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Parts of speech : empirical and theoretical advances / / edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau
| Parts of speech : empirical and theoretical advances / / edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | vi, 291 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 415 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AnsaldoUmberto
DonJan <1963-> PfauRoland |
| Collana | Benjamins current topics |
| Soggetto topico |
Parts of speech
Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammatical categories Linguistic universals |
| ISBN |
1-282-77501-4
9786612775017 90-272-8771-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Parts of Speech: Particulars, universals and theoretical constructs / Umberto Ansaldo, Jan Don and Roland Pfau -- Word classes in sign languages: Criteria and classifications / Waldemar Schwager and Ulrike Zeshan -- Roots, stems and word classes / Christian Lehmann -- Precategoriality and syntax-based parts of speech: The case of Late Archaic Chinese / Walter Bisang -- Covert word classes: Seeking your own syntax in Tukang Besi / Mark Donohue -- Pragmatic factors in the development of a switch-adjective language: A case study of the Miyako Hirara dialect of Ryukyuan / Yulia Koloskova and Toshio Ohori -- The acquisition of syntactic categories in Jakarta Indonesian / David Gil -- Possible phonological cues in categorial acquisition Evidence from adult categorization /Jan Don and Marian Erkelens -- Lexical semantic constraints on noun roots and noun borrowability / Lynn Nichols -- Degree words, intensification, and word class distinctions in Romance languages / Ventura Salazar-García -- On flexible and rigid nouns / Jan Rijkhoff. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809320503321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Pidgins and Creoles in Asia [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Umberto Ansaldo
| Pidgins and Creoles in Asia [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Umberto Ansaldo |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (180 p.) |
| Disciplina | 417/.22095 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | AnsaldoUmberto |
| Collana | Benjamins current topics |
| Soggetto topico |
Pidgin languages - Asia
Creole dialects - Asia Languages in contact - Asia |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-67688-4
9786613653819 90-272-7415-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Pidgins and Creoles in Asia; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword; Chinese Pidgin Russian; 1. Introduction; 2. Sources and a brief history; 2.1 Scholarship on CPR; 2.2 Spelling norms and lexicon; 3. Phonology; 4. Morphology; 4.1 Non-verbs; 4.1.1 Pronouns; 4.2 Verbs; 4.3 Sentence-final particles; 4.3.1 Tense/Aspect; 4.3.2 Negation; 5. Syntax; 5.1 Basic word order; 5.2 Thematic roles and syntactic functions; 5.2.1 Agent/topic marker; 5.2.2 Location/direction markers; 5.2.3 Subject/object markers; 5.3 NP word order; 5.4 Word order in questions
5.5 Postpositions and prepositions5.6 Comparatives; 6. Vocabulary; 6.1 Direct borrowings from languages other than Russian; 6.2 Calques; 7. Conclusions; References; Appendix; China Coast Pidgin; 1. Introduction; 2. History of CCP; 2.1 The British and Portuguese presence in Southern China; 2.2 The Canton System; 2.3 The nature of Chinese-Western contacts; 2.4 Development and decay of CCP; 3. CCP sources and previous scholarship; 3.1 The Redhaired Glossary; 3.2 The Instructor; 3.3 Previous views on CCP; 4. Grammar; 4.1 Words and sounds; 4.2 Nouns and NPs; 4.3 Copulas, zeros and existence 4.4 Placement of adverbs and prepositional phrases4.5 Tense and aspect; 4.6 Wh-interrogatives in Chinese and Western sources; 4.7 Topic-comment and discourse structure; 4.8 The verb makee; 5. Conclusion; References; African slave population of Portuguese India; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The relationship between the Asian and African creoles; 1.2 The relationship between the Asian creoles and African languages; 2. Africans in India prior to European colonial presence; 3. Africans in India as a result of European colonial activities; 3.1 Terminology in Portuguese documents; 3.2 Origins of the slaves 3.3 Demography3.3.1 Goa; 3.3.2 The Província do Norte; 4. Discussion; References; Vestiges of etymological gender in Malacca Creole Portuguese; 1. Introduction; 2. The language; 3. The basis for the study; 4. Framework for the discussion; 5. Data and procedures; 6. Vestigial etymological gender: derivational morphemes in MCP?; 7. Does MCP have vestiges of contextual gender inflection?; 8. The status of gender morphology in MCP; 9. Did diglossia cease when the Dutch conquered Malacca?; 10. Conclusion; Abbreviations; References; Bazaar Malay topics; 1. Introduction; 2. Topic prominence 3. English-style topic structure4. Chinese-style topic structure; 5. Bare conditionals; 6. Multiple topics and multiple comments; 7. Comparing Topic prominence in Singapore English; 8. Conclusion; References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452253803321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pidgins and Creoles in Asia [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Umberto Ansaldo
| Pidgins and Creoles in Asia [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Umberto Ansaldo |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (180 p.) |
| Disciplina | 417/.22095 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | AnsaldoUmberto |
| Collana | Benjamins current topics |
| Soggetto topico |
Pidgin languages - Asia
Creole dialects - Asia Languages in contact - Asia |
| ISBN |
1-280-67688-4
9786613653819 90-272-7415-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Pidgins and Creoles in Asia; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword; Chinese Pidgin Russian; 1. Introduction; 2. Sources and a brief history; 2.1 Scholarship on CPR; 2.2 Spelling norms and lexicon; 3. Phonology; 4. Morphology; 4.1 Non-verbs; 4.1.1 Pronouns; 4.2 Verbs; 4.3 Sentence-final particles; 4.3.1 Tense/Aspect; 4.3.2 Negation; 5. Syntax; 5.1 Basic word order; 5.2 Thematic roles and syntactic functions; 5.2.1 Agent/topic marker; 5.2.2 Location/direction markers; 5.2.3 Subject/object markers; 5.3 NP word order; 5.4 Word order in questions
5.5 Postpositions and prepositions5.6 Comparatives; 6. Vocabulary; 6.1 Direct borrowings from languages other than Russian; 6.2 Calques; 7. Conclusions; References; Appendix; China Coast Pidgin; 1. Introduction; 2. History of CCP; 2.1 The British and Portuguese presence in Southern China; 2.2 The Canton System; 2.3 The nature of Chinese-Western contacts; 2.4 Development and decay of CCP; 3. CCP sources and previous scholarship; 3.1 The Redhaired Glossary; 3.2 The Instructor; 3.3 Previous views on CCP; 4. Grammar; 4.1 Words and sounds; 4.2 Nouns and NPs; 4.3 Copulas, zeros and existence 4.4 Placement of adverbs and prepositional phrases4.5 Tense and aspect; 4.6 Wh-interrogatives in Chinese and Western sources; 4.7 Topic-comment and discourse structure; 4.8 The verb makee; 5. Conclusion; References; African slave population of Portuguese India; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The relationship between the Asian and African creoles; 1.2 The relationship between the Asian creoles and African languages; 2. Africans in India prior to European colonial presence; 3. Africans in India as a result of European colonial activities; 3.1 Terminology in Portuguese documents; 3.2 Origins of the slaves 3.3 Demography3.3.1 Goa; 3.3.2 The Província do Norte; 4. Discussion; References; Vestiges of etymological gender in Malacca Creole Portuguese; 1. Introduction; 2. The language; 3. The basis for the study; 4. Framework for the discussion; 5. Data and procedures; 6. Vestigial etymological gender: derivational morphemes in MCP?; 7. Does MCP have vestiges of contextual gender inflection?; 8. The status of gender morphology in MCP; 9. Did diglossia cease when the Dutch conquered Malacca?; 10. Conclusion; Abbreviations; References; Bazaar Malay topics; 1. Introduction; 2. Topic prominence 3. English-style topic structure4. Chinese-style topic structure; 5. Bare conditionals; 6. Multiple topics and multiple comments; 7. Comparing Topic prominence in Singapore English; 8. Conclusion; References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779155903321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Pidgins and Creoles in Asia / / edited by Umberto Ansaldo
| Pidgins and Creoles in Asia / / edited by Umberto Ansaldo |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (180 p.) |
| Disciplina | 417/.22095 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | AnsaldoUmberto |
| Collana | Benjamins current topics |
| Soggetto topico |
Pidgin languages - Asia
Creole dialects - Asia Languages in contact - Asia |
| ISBN |
1-280-67688-4
9786613653819 90-272-7415-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Pidgins and Creoles in Asia; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword; Chinese Pidgin Russian; 1. Introduction; 2. Sources and a brief history; 2.1 Scholarship on CPR; 2.2 Spelling norms and lexicon; 3. Phonology; 4. Morphology; 4.1 Non-verbs; 4.1.1 Pronouns; 4.2 Verbs; 4.3 Sentence-final particles; 4.3.1 Tense/Aspect; 4.3.2 Negation; 5. Syntax; 5.1 Basic word order; 5.2 Thematic roles and syntactic functions; 5.2.1 Agent/topic marker; 5.2.2 Location/direction markers; 5.2.3 Subject/object markers; 5.3 NP word order; 5.4 Word order in questions
5.5 Postpositions and prepositions5.6 Comparatives; 6. Vocabulary; 6.1 Direct borrowings from languages other than Russian; 6.2 Calques; 7. Conclusions; References; Appendix; China Coast Pidgin; 1. Introduction; 2. History of CCP; 2.1 The British and Portuguese presence in Southern China; 2.2 The Canton System; 2.3 The nature of Chinese-Western contacts; 2.4 Development and decay of CCP; 3. CCP sources and previous scholarship; 3.1 The Redhaired Glossary; 3.2 The Instructor; 3.3 Previous views on CCP; 4. Grammar; 4.1 Words and sounds; 4.2 Nouns and NPs; 4.3 Copulas, zeros and existence 4.4 Placement of adverbs and prepositional phrases4.5 Tense and aspect; 4.6 Wh-interrogatives in Chinese and Western sources; 4.7 Topic-comment and discourse structure; 4.8 The verb makee; 5. Conclusion; References; African slave population of Portuguese India; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The relationship between the Asian and African creoles; 1.2 The relationship between the Asian creoles and African languages; 2. Africans in India prior to European colonial presence; 3. Africans in India as a result of European colonial activities; 3.1 Terminology in Portuguese documents; 3.2 Origins of the slaves 3.3 Demography3.3.1 Goa; 3.3.2 The Província do Norte; 4. Discussion; References; Vestiges of etymological gender in Malacca Creole Portuguese; 1. Introduction; 2. The language; 3. The basis for the study; 4. Framework for the discussion; 5. Data and procedures; 6. Vestigial etymological gender: derivational morphemes in MCP?; 7. Does MCP have vestiges of contextual gender inflection?; 8. The status of gender morphology in MCP; 9. Did diglossia cease when the Dutch conquered Malacca?; 10. Conclusion; Abbreviations; References; Bazaar Malay topics; 1. Introduction; 2. Topic prominence 3. English-style topic structure4. Chinese-style topic structure; 5. Bare conditionals; 6. Multiple topics and multiple comments; 7. Comparing Topic prominence in Singapore English; 8. Conclusion; References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808728703321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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