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The Story of kom in Nigerian Pidgin English

  • Sali A. Tagliamonte
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Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles
This chapter is in the book Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles
© 2000 John Benjamins Publishing Company

© 2000 John Benjamins Publishing Company

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Verb Movement in four Creole Languages 1
  5. Notes on Componential Diffusion in the Genesis of the Kabuverdianu Cluster 35
  6. “High” Kwéyòl 63
  7. From Latin to Early Romance 103
  8. The Creole verb 133
  9. Are Creole Languages “Perfect” Languages? 163
  10. The Origin of the Syntax and Semantics of Property Items in the Surinamese Plantation Creole 201
  11. Variable Concord in Portuguese 235
  12. Nativization and the genesis of Hawaiian Creole 257
  13. The Status of Sango in Fact and Fiction. On the one-hundredth anniversary of its conception 301
  14. Optimality Theory, the Minimal-Word Constraint, and the Historical Sequencing of Substrate Influence in Pidgin/Creole Genesis 335
  15. The Story of kom in Nigerian Pidgin English 353
  16. Tense and Aspect in Sranan and the Creole Prototype 383
  17. Chaos and Creoles. Towards a New Paradigm? 443
  18. Wh-words and Question Formation in Pidgin/Creole Languages 459
  19. Index 499
https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.21.13tag

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Verb Movement in four Creole Languages 1
  5. Notes on Componential Diffusion in the Genesis of the Kabuverdianu Cluster 35
  6. “High” Kwéyòl 63
  7. From Latin to Early Romance 103
  8. The Creole verb 133
  9. Are Creole Languages “Perfect” Languages? 163
  10. The Origin of the Syntax and Semantics of Property Items in the Surinamese Plantation Creole 201
  11. Variable Concord in Portuguese 235
  12. Nativization and the genesis of Hawaiian Creole 257
  13. The Status of Sango in Fact and Fiction. On the one-hundredth anniversary of its conception 301
  14. Optimality Theory, the Minimal-Word Constraint, and the Historical Sequencing of Substrate Influence in Pidgin/Creole Genesis 335
  15. The Story of kom in Nigerian Pidgin English 353
  16. Tense and Aspect in Sranan and the Creole Prototype 383
  17. Chaos and Creoles. Towards a New Paradigm? 443
  18. Wh-words and Question Formation in Pidgin/Creole Languages 459
  19. Index 499
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