Issues in the study of Pidgin and Creole languages

Issues in the study of Pidgin and Creole languages / Claire Lefebvre.

The content of this book is concerned with various issues at stake in Creole studies that are also of interest for general linguistics. These include the general issue of Creole genesis and of the accelerated linguistic change that characterizes the emergence of these languages as compared to ordina...

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Main Author: Lefebvre, Claire
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2004.
Series:Studies in language companion series ; v. 70.
Subjects:
Pidgin languages.
Creole dialects.
Creole dialects, French > Haiti.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Creole Languages.
Creole dialects
Creole dialects, French
Pidgin languages
Pidgintalen.
Creooltalen.
Dialeto > França;haiti.
Crioulização.
Aquisição da linguagem (gramática) > Haiti.
Créole haïtien (Langue)
Langue créole.
Langue pidgin.
Haiti
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Table of Contents:
  • Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2. THE GENESIS OF PIDGIN AND CREOLE LANGUAGES A STATE OF THE ART; CHAPTER 3. THE RELEXIFICATION ACCOUNT OF CREOLE GENESIS THE CASE OF HAITIAN CREOLE; CHAPTER 4. WHAT DO CREOLE STUDIES HAVE TO OFFER TO MAINSTREAM LINGUISTICS?; CHAPTER 5. ON DATA; CHAPTER 6. MULTIFUNCTIONALITY AND THE CONCEPT OF LEXICAL ENTRY; CHAPTER 7. ON THE SEMANTIC OPACITY OF CREOLE LANGUAGES
  • CHAPTER 8. DO CREOLE LANGUAGES REALLY FORM A TYPOLOGICAL CLASS?CHAPTER 9. THE INTERPLAY OF RELEXIFICATION AND LEVELLING IN CREOLE GENESIS AND DEVELOPMENT; CHAPTER 10. THE EMERGENCE OF PRODUCTIVE MORPHOLOGY IN CREOLE LANGUAGES THE CASE OF HAITIAN CREOLE; REFERENCES; APPENDIX 1. A RESEARCH PROGRAMME ON PC GENESIS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY; APPENDIX 2. THE COMPOSITION OF THE HAITIAN LEXICON; INDEX OF AUTHORS; INDEX OF SUBJECTS

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