Relabeling in language genesis / Claire Lefebvre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lefebvre, Claire, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact.

Creole dialects.

Bilingualism.

Second language acquisition.

Construction grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : map (black and white)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Relabeling is a process that consists in assigning a lexical entry of language x a new label derived from a phonetic string drawn from language y. This process plays a central role in the formation of contact languages such as mixed languages, pidgins and creoles, New Englishes, etc. The aim of this book is to present a coherent picture of the progress that has been made in research on relabeling over the last fifteen years and to reply to the comments and questions that have been directed at the relabeling-based theory of creole genesis presented in Lefebvre (1998) and related work.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Relabeling: A Central Process in Language Contact/Genesis

Chapter 3: A Relabeling-Based Theory of Creole Genesis

Chapter 4: Relabeling in Two Different Theories of the Lexicon

Renée Lambert-Brétière and Claire Lefebvre

Chapter 5: Relabeling and Word Order: A Construction Grammar Perspective

Claire Lefebvre and Renée Lambert-Brétière

Chapter 6: Relabeling options: On Some Differences between Haitian and Saramaccan

Chapter 7: Relabeling and the Contribution of the Superstrate Languages to Creoles

Chapter 8: Relabeling and the Typological Classification of Creoles

Chapter 9: Conclusion: A Strong Alternative to the Bioprogram Hypothesis

References

Index of Subjects

Index of Authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-294) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-994530-6

0-19-020120-7