Language change and language contact in pidgins and creoles
John H McWhorter, Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly argue for controversial positions. The papers demonstrate how pidgins and creoles shed light on issues such as verb movement, contact-induced language change and its gradations, discourse management via tense-aspect particles, language genesis, substratal transfer, and Universal Grammar, and cover a w.
年:
2000
出版社:
J. Benjamins
语言:
english
页:
512
ISBN 10:
902729948X
ISBN 13:
9789027299482
系列:
Creole language library, v. 21
文件:
PDF, 1.75 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2000