The handbook of Pidgin and Creole studies / / edited by Silvia Kouwenberg and John Victor Singler

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell Pub., 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (704 p.)
• Disciplina: 417/.22
• Soggetto topico: Pidgin languages; Creole dialects
• Altri autori: KouwenbergSilvia <1960-> SinglerJohn Victor
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction SILVIA KOUWENBERG AND JOHN VICTOR SINGLER; Part I Properties of Pidgins and Creoles; 2 Atlantic Creole Syntax DONALD WINFORD; 3 Forging Pacific Pidgin and Creole Syntax: Substrate, Discourse, and Inherent Variability MIRIAM MEYERHOFF; 4 Pidgin and Creole Morphology TERRY CROWLEY; 5 Creole Phonology NORVAL S. H. SMITH; 6 Pidgins versus Creoles and Pidgincreoles PETER BAKKER; 7 Non-Indo-European Pidgins and Creoles KEES VERSTEEGH; Part II Perspectives on Pidgin/Creole Genesis ; 8 Pidgins/Creoles and Second Language Acquisition JEFF SIEGEL9 Creole Genesis: The Impact of the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis TONJES VEENSTRA; 10 Pidgins/Creoles and Historical Linguistics SARAH G. THOMASON; 11 Pidgins/Creoles and Contact Languages: An Overview RAJEND MESTHRIE; 12 Creole Studies and Multilingualism PIETER MUYSKEN; 13 A Demographic Perspective on Creole Formation JACQUES ARENDS; 14 The Sociohistorical Context of Creole Genesis JOHN VICTOR SINGLER; 15 The Cultural in Pidgin Genesis CHRISTINE JOURDAN; Part III Pidgins/Creoles and Linguistic Explanation ; 16 Grammaticalization in Pidgins and Creoles ADRIENNE BRUYN17 Creoles,Markedness, and Default Settings: An Appraisal ALAIN KIHM; 18 Semantic Evidence in Pidgin and Creole Genesis GEORGE HUTTAR; 19 Pidgins,Creoles,and Variation PETER L.PATRICK; Part IV Pidgins/Creoles and Kindred Languages; 20 The Case of Signed Languages in the Context of Pidgin and Creole Studies JUDY KEGL; 21 Pidgins/Creoles and African American English ARTHUR K.SPEARS; 22 Spanish-Based Creoles in the Caribbean JOHN M. LIPSKI; Part V Pidgins/Creoles in Society; 23 Pidgins/Creoles and Discourse GENEVIÈVE ESCURE ; 24 Pidgins/Creoles and Education DENNIS CRAIG25 Language Planning in Pidgins and Creoles HUBERT DEVONISH; 26 Literary Representations of Creole Languages: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives from the Caribbean HÉLÈNE BUZELIN AND LISE WINER; Author Index; Language Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies. A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studiesBrings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor teamAccessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole
• Titolo autorizzato: The handbook of Pidgin and Creole studies
• ISBN: 1-282-02625-9; 1-78034-190-3; 9786612026256; 0-470-70472-1; 1-4443-3167-1; 1-4443-0598-0; 1-4443-0599-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910146113803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.