Substrate and adstrate : the origins of spatial semantics in West African pidgincreoles / / Micah Corum

• Autore: Corum Micah
• Pubblicazione: Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Disciplina: 417.22
• Soggetto topico: Pidgin languages - Africa, West; Creole dialects - Africa, West; Semantics - Africa, West
• Soggetto non controllato: Semantics, Creoles
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Spatial semantics in West African pidgincreoles -- Chapter 2. Locative predication in Guinea Coast languages: a survey of features in the West African (Pidgin) Creoles’ extended typological matrix -- Chapter 3. Topological spatial relations in Ghanaian Student Pidgin: an exercise in semantic typology in a West African pidgincreole context -- Chapter 4. Meanings and functions of for in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English -- Chapter 5. Sources of locative for in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English -- Chapter 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume provides a large-scale, in-depth analysis of locative structures in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English and compares those structures to locatives in their lexifier, substrate, and adstrate languages. The work draws on new research methods for investigating substrate and adstrate influence in semantics and creole genesis.
• Titolo autorizzato: Substrate and adstrate
• ISBN: 1-5015-0091-0; 1-61451-462-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812872103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Language contact and bilingualism ; ; 10.