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The emergence of pidgin and Creole languages / Jeff Siegel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siegel, Jeff, author.
- Series:
- Oxford linguistics.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford linguistics
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pidgin languages--History.
- Pidgin languages.
- Creole dialects--History.
- Creole dialects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work examines the emergence of pidgins and creoles and the controversies surrounding current theories about them. Among the questions considered are why their grammars are simple at the pidgin-creole-postcreole life cycle, and the causes of grammatical innovation. The analysis is supported with examples and case studies.
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Morphological Simplicity in Pidgins; 3 Morphological Simplicity and Expansion in Creoles; 4 Sources of Morphological Expansion; 5 Transfer; 6 Constraints on Substrate Influence; 7 Substrate Reinforcement; 8 Predicting substrate influence; 9 Decreolization?; 10 Conclusion; References; General Index
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-311) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-03552-0
- 9786611341527
- 1-281-34152-5
- 0-19-152713-0
- 1-4356-5318-1
- OCLC:
- 437096245
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