The emergence of pidgin and Creole languages / Jeff Siegel.
The emergence of pidgin and Creole languages / Jeff Siegel.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N417.2209/1
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English
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xiv, 320 p. ; 26 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Morphological Simplicity in Pidgins -- 3. Morphological Simplicity and Expansion in Creoles -- 4. Sources of Morphological Expansion -- 5. Transfer -- 6. Constraints on Substrate Influence -- 7. Substrate Reinforcement -- 8. Predicting substrate influence -- 9. Decreolization?...
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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England
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2008.
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He shows how these processes and strategies can account for many of the characteristics of contact languages, and proposes linguistic and sociolinguistic constraints on their application in language contact. His analysis is supported with detailed examples and case studies from Pidgin Fijian, Melanesian Pidgin, Hawai'i Creole, New Caledonian Tayo,...
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The emergence of pidgin and Creole languages / Jeff Siegel.
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Emergence of pidgin & Creole languages.
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Oxford linguistics.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-311) and index.
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N417.2209/1
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74VMb6NggXZl
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0199216665 (pbk.)
0199216673 (hbk.)
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417.2209
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991000716439702626
