Jacques Arends, Crit Cremers, Norval Smith, Eithne B. Carlin, S. Haan, Adrienne Bruyn, Margot Berg
Sari: Creole Language Library
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jul-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252760)
This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Dr...Loe edasi...
Cecelia A. Cutler, Zvjezdana Vrzic, Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer
Sari: Creole Language Library
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jul-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252777)
Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas brings together the original research of nineteen leading scholars on language contact and pidgin/creole genesis. In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252753)
The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the genesis of Spanish creoles in the Americas in a broader sen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jul-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252746)
This book is about the functional categories of three Caribbean creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian Creole and Papiamentu with two specific goals. The first one is to evaluate the respective contribution of the source languages to the functional categories...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jul-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252739)
Large-scale migration after WWII and the prominence of Jamaican Creole in the media have promoted its use all around the globe. Deterritorialisation has entailed the contact-induced transformation of Jamaican Creole in diaspora communities and its ad...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Apr-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252715)
This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics. Part I presents the theoretical background, with chapters devo...Loe edasi...
This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics. Part I presents the theoretical background, with chapters devo...Loe edasi...
Isabelle Buchstaller, Anders Holmberg, Mohammad Almoaily
Sari: Creole Language Library
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Jan-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252708)
Most of what we know about pidgin and creole languages is the result of research into contact languages that developed as a consequence of European expansion into Africa and the Caribbean. The narrow focus on European lexifier and West African substr...Loe edasi...
Hugo C. Cardoso, Alan N. Baxter, Mário Pinharanda-Nunes
Sari: Creole Language Library
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Nov-2012, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252692)
Starting in 1498, contact between Ibero-Romance and Asian languages has taken place along a vast stretch of the coastlines of continental and insular Asia, producing a string of contact varieties which are among the least visible in the field of Creo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jul-2012, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252654)
This book investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language variety in rural Jamaica. For sociolinguists and second language/dialect researchers interested in the acq...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jun-2012, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252661)
Contributes to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. Alongside five chapters on creole languages (Surinam creole, Haitian, Mauritian, Sao Tome and Pitchi), this volume brings counter-evidence to the claim tha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jun-2012, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252678)
Hans den Besten (1948-2010) made numerous contributions to Afrikaans linguistics over a period of nearly three decades. His writings helped shift the perspective on the roots of Afrikaans beyond Dutch to the structure and vocabulary of Khoekhoe, to P...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jun-2012, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252685)
This book is a ‘must read’ for those who are looking for fresh perspectives on the process of creolization of language. Focusing on peoples whose agency has too often been rendered invisible in colonial and neo-colonial history and on voices which ha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Mar-2012, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252647)
Within the framework of Chomskys Principles and Parameters Theory and the Minimalist Program, this work presents a detailed discussion of the different types of wh-question formation and relativization strategies in Cape Verdean Creole (Santiago var...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Nov-2011, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252609)
Within the framework of Chomsky’s Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantif...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Sep-2011, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252623)
Can historically marginalized, threatened languages be saved in the contemporary global era? In relation to the wider postcolonial world, especially the Caribbean, this book focuses on efforts to preserve and promote Lesser Antillean French Creole -...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Sep-2011, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252616)
Until recently, mixed languages were considered an oddity of contact linguistics, with debates about whether or not they actually existed stifling much descriptive work or discussion of their origins. These debates have shifted from questioning their...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jan-2011, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252593)
The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics as an academic field. It has yielded influential theory, such as the (post-)creole continuum or the Acts of Identity models, that...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-May-2010, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027252586)
This volume offers a first survey of projects from around the world that seek to implement Creole languages in education. In contrast to previous works, this volume takes a holistic approach. Chapters discuss the sociolinguistic, educational and ideo...Loe edasi...
This volume offers a first survey of projects from around the world that seek to implement Creole languages in education. In contrast to previous works, this volume takes a holistic approach. Chapters discuss the sociolinguistic, educational and ideo...Loe edasi...
