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Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles
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Edited by:
John H. McWhorter
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English
Published/Copyright:
2000
About this book
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 wide range of contact languages, ranging from English- and French-based creoles through Portuguese creoles of Africa and Asia, Sango, Popular Brazilian Portuguese, West African Pidgin Englishes, and Hawaiian Creole English.
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Table of contents
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Preface
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Verb Movement in four Creole Languages
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Notes on Componential Diffusion in the Genesis of the Kabuverdianu Cluster
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“High” Kwéyòl
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From Latin to Early Romance
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The Creole verb
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Are Creole Languages “Perfect” Languages?
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The Origin of the Syntax and Semantics of Property Items in the Surinamese Plantation Creole
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Variable Concord in Portuguese
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Nativization and the genesis of Hawaiian Creole
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The Status of Sango in Fact and Fiction. On the one-hundredth anniversary of its conception
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Optimality Theory, the Minimal-Word Constraint, and the Historical Sequencing of Substrate Influence in Pidgin/Creole Genesis
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The Story of kom in Nigerian Pidgin English
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Tense and Aspect in Sranan and the Creole Prototype
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Chaos and Creoles. Towards a New Paradigm?
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Wh-words and Question Formation in Pidgin/Creole Languages
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Index
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October 21, 2008
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503
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Keywords for this book
Contact Linguistics; Creole studies; Historical linguistics; Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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Professional and scholarly;
