The volume shows that creoles may be both more complex overall and less exceptional structurally than commonly thought.
- Natalie Operstein & Allyson Walker, California State University, Fullerton, in the Journal of Historical Linguistics 2:2 (2012),
It is generally assumed that Creole languages form a separate category from the rest of the world’s languages. The papers in this volume, written by internationally renowned scholars in the field of Creole studies, seek to explore more deeply this commonly held assumption by comparing the linguistic properties of specific Creole languages to each other and also to non-Creole languages. Using a variety of methodological and analytical approaches, the contributions to this volume show that the linguistic classification of Creole languages continues to be a topic of intense debate that requires the re-examination of the premises of linguistic typology. What is the linguistic motivation for considering that languages are related or unrelated? How and why do common linguistic properties arise? Are Creoles indeed exceptional? This volume examines these questions and provides a strong foundation for continued research into the phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic features found in Creole languages. Most of these articles were previously published in the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:1 (2011). The article by Jeff Good was previously published in the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27:1 (2012).
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What is the linguistic motivation for considering that languages are related or unrelated? How and why do common linguistic properties arise? Are Creoles indeed exceptional? This book examines these questions and provides a strong foundation for continued research into the phonological, syntactic and semantic features found in Creole languages.
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1. Introduction (by Bhatt, Parth); 2. Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creoles (by Bakker, Peter); 3. Typologizing grammatical complexities: Why creoles may be paradigmatically simple but syntagmatically average (by Good, Jeff); 4. Pidgin-creoles as a scattered sprachbund: Comparing Kriyol and Nubi (by Kihm, Alain); 5. Creolization and admixture: Typology, feature pools, and second language acquisition (by Plag, Ingo); 6. The Gulf of Guinea Creoles: Genetic and typological relations (by Hagemeijer, Tjerk); 7. Typology of creole phonology: Phoneme inventories and syllable templates (by Klein, Thomas B.); 8. The typology of Caribbean Creole reduplication (by Kouwenberg, Silvia); 9. Language index; 10. Subject index
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ISBN
9789027202765
Publisert
2013-12-18
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John Benjamins Publishing Co
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670 gr
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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