Defining creole / / John H. McWhorter |
Autore | McWhorter John H. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (435 pages) |
Disciplina | 417/.22 |
Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
Soggetto topico |
Creole dialects - Grammar
Creole dialects - Lexicology Creole dialects - Inflection Linguistic change |
ISBN |
0-19-029040-4
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 | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824839403321 |
McWhorter John H. | ||
New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Defining creole / / John H. McWhorter |
Autore | McWhorter John H. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (435 p.) |
Disciplina | 417/.22 |
Soggetto topico |
Creole dialects - Grammar
Creole dialects - Lexicology Creole dialects - Inflection Linguistic change |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
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 | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450289803321 |
McWhorter John H. | ||
Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Defining creole / / John H. McWhorter |
Autore | McWhorter John H. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (435 p.) |
Disciplina | 417/.22 |
Soggetto topico |
Creole dialects - Grammar
Creole dialects - Lexicology Creole dialects - Inflection Linguistic change |
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 | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783678503321 |
McWhorter John H. | ||
Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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