Functional Categories In Three Atlantic Creoles
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Functional Categories In Three Atlantic Creoles
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Author : Claire Lefebvre
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2015-07-15
Functional Categories In Three Atlantic Creoles written by Claire Lefebvre and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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 of these three creoles. The second is to evaluate the degree of similarity/dissimilarity of the functional categories across these creoles. This study is cast within the relabeling-based account of creole genesis. Several lexical items discussed in this book may fulfill more than one grammatical function thus raising the issue of multifuctionality. No such in-depth comparative work of these three creoles with their source languages and of the three creoles among themselves is available elsewhere in the literature. This book is addressed to linguists (including Master and PhD students) interested in syntactic categories and more specifically in functional categories, to creolists and to researchers interested in language contact.
Variation Rolls The Dice
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Author : Enoch O. Aboh
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2021-10-15
Variation Rolls The Dice written by Enoch O. Aboh and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene aims to celebrate Mufwene’s ground-breaking contribution to linguistics in the past four decades. The title also encapsulates his approach to language as both systemic and socio-cultural practices, and the role of variation in determining particular evolutionary trajectories in specific linguistic ecologies. The book therefore focuses on variation within and across languages, within and across speakers, and how this fundamental aspect of human behavior can affect language structure in time and space. Mufwene has been instrumental in putting creole languages on the map of General Linguistics and connecting their analysis to issues of language acquisition, multilingualism, language contact, language evolution, and language typology. Thanks to the diversity of topics and the wide-ranging theoretical persuasions of the contributors, this volume aims at a large readership including both scholars and advanced students interested in cutting-edge research in the aforementioned domains.
A Description Of Papiamentu
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Author : Yolanda Rivera Castillo
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-06-20
A Description Of Papiamentu written by Yolanda Rivera Castillo and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book constitutes a primary data-supported, comprehensive grammar of Papiamentu. It analyzes spontaneous speech data from two varieties spoken in Aruba and Curaçao. The author examines structural features so far unexplored in the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, and aspects of sentential semantics. Particular attention is given to nominal classifiers, non-pro-drop syntactic constructions, and absolute tense marking, traits that are rarely described in regards to Creole or Romance languages. Researchers interested in formal analyses of Papiamentu, Creole languages, and in language contact will find this book an indispensable tool.
Lifespan Acquisition And Language Change
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Author : Israel Sanz-Sánchez
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2024-04-15
Lifespan Acquisition And Language Change written by Israel Sanz-Sánchez and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume connects the latest research on language acquisition across the lifespan with the explanation of language change in specific sociohistorical settings. This conversation benefits from recent advances in two areas: on the one hand, the study of how learners of various ages and in various sociolinguistic contexts acquire language variation; on the other, historical sociolinguistics as the field that focuses on the study of historical patterns of language variation and change. The overarching rationale for this interdisciplinary dialogue is that all forms of language change start and spread as the result of individual acts of acquisition throughout the speakers’ lives. The thirteen chapters in this book are authored by an international group of both established and emerging scholars. They encompass theoretical overviews of specific research areas within the broader realm of the acquisition of language variation, as well as case studies applying these theoretical advances to the exploration of language change in a wide range of sociohistorical contexts in the Americas, Oceania, and Asia. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers in the area of language acquisition, language variation and language change, especially those working on interdisciplinary and crosslinguistic connections among these areas.
The Portuguese Language Continuum In Africa And Brazil
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Author : Laura Álvarez López
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2018-11-22
The Portuguese Language Continuum In Africa And Brazil written by Laura Álvarez López and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to offer studies on a whole set of varieties of Portuguese in Africa as well as Brazilian Portuguese. Authored by specialists on varieties of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil, the eleven chapters and the epilogue promote a dialogue between researchers interested in their genesis, sociohistories and linguistic properties. Most chapters directly address the idea of a continuum of Portuguese derived from parallel sociohistorical and linguistic factors in Africa and Brazil, due to the colonial expansion of the language to new multilingual settings. The volume contributes to the understanding of structural properties that are often shared by several varieties in this continuum, and describes the various situations and domains of language use as well as sociocultural contexts where they have emerged and where they are being used. As of 26 July 2021, the ebook edition is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
New Perspectives On The Origins Of Language
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Author : Claire Lefebvre
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2013-11-15
New Perspectives On The Origins Of Language written by Claire Lefebvre and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The question of how language emerged is one of the most fascinating and difficult problems in science. In recent years, a strong resurgence of interest in the emergence of language from an evolutionary perspective has been helped by the convergence of approaches, methods, and ideas from several disciplines. The selection of contributions in this volume highlight scenarios of language origin and the prerequisites for a faculty of language based on biological, historical, social, cultural, and paleontological forays into the conditions that brought forth and favored language emergence, augmented by insights from sister disciplines. The chapters all reflect new speculation, discoveries and more refined research methods leading to a more focused understanding of the range of possibilities and how we might choose among them. There is much that we do not yet know, but the outlines of the path ahead are ever clearer.
The Survey Of Pidgin And Creole Languages
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Author : Susanne Maria Michaelis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2013
The Survey Of Pidgin And Creole Languages written by Susanne Maria Michaelis and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The most authoritative guide ever published to the world's pidgin and creole languages. The 3-volume Survey describes their histories and linguistic characteristics. The Atlas of Pidgins and Creoles, published at the same time, shows how 130 linguistic features are distributed among the world's languages.
Structure And Variation In Language Contact
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Author : Ana Deumert
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2006-11-30
Structure And Variation In Language Contact written by Ana Deumert and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions reflect – from various perspectives and using different types of data – on the interplay between structure and variation in contact languages, both synchronically and diachronically. The contributors consider a wide range of languages, including Surinamese creoles, Chinook Jargon, Yiddish, AAVE, Haitian Creole, Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Portuguese varieties, Nigerian Pidgin, Sri Lankan Malay, Papiamentu, and Bahamian Creole English. A need to question and test existing claims regarding pidginization/creolization is evident in all contributions, and the authors provide analyses for a variety of grammatical structures: VO-ordering and affixation, agglutination, negation, TMAs, plural marking, the copula, and serial verb constructions. The volume provides ample evidence for the observation that pidgin/creole studies is today a mature subfield of linguistics which is making important contributions to general linguistic theory.
The Handbook Of Pidgin And Creole Studies
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Author : Silvia Kouwenberg
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2009-02-11
The Handbook Of Pidgin And Creole Studies written by Silvia Kouwenberg and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies. A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language
Kreolisch Und Franz Sisch
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Author : Peter Stein
language : de
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-11-07
Kreolisch Und Franz Sisch written by Peter Stein and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Als die erste Auflage dieses Arbeitsheftes erschien, standen die Kreolsprachen noch am Rand des linguistischen Interesses, in der universitären Lehre noch mehr als in der Forschung. Inzwischen gehören sie zum Standardkanon, sind in Mode gekommen, und Seminare zum Themenbereich werden regelmäßig im Rahmen des Französisch-Studiums angeboten; die Beschäftigung mit kreolistischen Themen ist in das Studium integriert. Umso mehr war es an der Zeit, das vorliegende Arbeitsheft zu überarbeiten und zu aktualisieren, einerseits mit einem Blick auf die kreolistische Forschung, andererseits und vor allem aber mit einem Blick auf die Sprachen und die Gebiete, in denen sie gesprochen werden, denn dort ist es zu Entwicklungen gekommen, die bei Erscheinen der Erstauflage vielleicht erhofft, aber nicht vorausgesehen werden konnten. Zur Neubearbeitung und Aktualisierung des Arbeitsheftes, für die das Grundkonzept beibehalten wird, kommen deswegen neue Themenbereiche hinzu wie Prozesse und Ergebnisse der Standardisierung, Kreolsprachen im Internet, daneben aber auch die Bedeutung der frühen Texte und Dokumente. In einem eigenen Beitrag gibt Katrin Mutz einen Überblick über die Forschung und Forschungsdiskussion seit dem Erscheinen der ersten Auflage.