Substrate and adstrate : the origins of spatial semantics in West African pidgincreoles / Micah Corum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corum, Micah, author.

Series:

Language contact and bilingualism ; 10.

Language contact and bilingualism, 2190-698X ; volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pidgin languages--Africa, West.

Pidgin languages.

Creole dialects--Africa, West.

Creole dialects.

Semantics--Africa, West.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume provides a large-scale, in-depth analysis of locative structures in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English and compares those structures to locatives in their lexifier, substrate, and adstrate languages. The work draws on new research methods for investigating substrate and adstrate influence in semantics and creole genesis.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of tables

List of figures

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Spatial semantics in West African pidgincreoles

Chapter 2. Locative predication in Guinea Coast languages: a survey of features in the West African (Pidgin) Creoles’ extended typological matrix

Chapter 3. Topological spatial relations in Ghanaian Student Pidgin: an exercise in semantic typology in a West African pidgincreole context

Chapter 4. Meanings and functions of for in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English

Chapter 5. Sources of locative for in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English

Chapter 6. Concluding remarks

References

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Appendix 4

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501500916

1501500910

9781614514626

1614514623

OCLC:

952555001