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  • Aymeric Daval-Markussen , Kristoffer Friis Bøegh and Peter Bakker
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Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches
This chapter is in the book Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches
© 2017 John Benjamins

© 2017 John Benjamins

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface ix
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
  5. Chapter 2. Key concepts in the history of creole studies 5
  6. Chapter 3. Phylogenetics in biology and linguistics 35
  7. Chapter 4. Methods 59
  8. Chapter 5. Creole typology I 79
  9. Chapter 6. Creole typology II 103
  10. Chapter 7. West African languages and creoles worldwide 141
  11. Chapter 8. The typology and classification of French-based creoles 175
  12. Chapter 9. The simple emerging from the complex 193
  13. Chapter 10. Dutch creoles compared with their lexifier 219
  14. Chapter 11. Similarities and differences among Iberian creoles 241
  15. Chapter 12. Afro-Hispanic varieties in comparison 269
  16. Chapter 13. Cognitive creolistics and semantic primes 293
  17. Chapter 14. Lexicalization patterns in core vocabulary 315
  18. Chapter 15. The semantics of Englishes and Creoles 345
  19. Chapter 16. Feature pools show that creoles are distinct languages due to their special origin 369
  20. Chapter 17. Complementing creole studies with phylogenetics 375
  21. Chapter 18. From basic to cultural semantics 381
  22. Chapter 19. Linguistics and evolutionary biology continue to cross-fertilize each other and may do so even more in the future, including in the field of creolistics 385
  23. Chapter 20. Epilogue 389
  24. Language index 395
  25. People index 401
  26. Places index 407
  27. Subject index 409
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.211.07dav

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface ix
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
  5. Chapter 2. Key concepts in the history of creole studies 5
  6. Chapter 3. Phylogenetics in biology and linguistics 35
  7. Chapter 4. Methods 59
  8. Chapter 5. Creole typology I 79
  9. Chapter 6. Creole typology II 103
  10. Chapter 7. West African languages and creoles worldwide 141
  11. Chapter 8. The typology and classification of French-based creoles 175
  12. Chapter 9. The simple emerging from the complex 193
  13. Chapter 10. Dutch creoles compared with their lexifier 219
  14. Chapter 11. Similarities and differences among Iberian creoles 241
  15. Chapter 12. Afro-Hispanic varieties in comparison 269
  16. Chapter 13. Cognitive creolistics and semantic primes 293
  17. Chapter 14. Lexicalization patterns in core vocabulary 315
  18. Chapter 15. The semantics of Englishes and Creoles 345
  19. Chapter 16. Feature pools show that creoles are distinct languages due to their special origin 369
  20. Chapter 17. Complementing creole studies with phylogenetics 375
  21. Chapter 18. From basic to cultural semantics 381
  22. Chapter 19. Linguistics and evolutionary biology continue to cross-fertilize each other and may do so even more in the future, including in the field of creolistics 385
  23. Chapter 20. Epilogue 389
  24. Language index 395
  25. People index 401
  26. Places index 407
  27. Subject index 409
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