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Structure and variation in language contact

✍ Scribed by Ana Deumert, Stephanie Durrleman

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J. Benjamins
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Leaves
387
Series
Creole language library 29
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Library
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Книга Structure And Variation in Language Contact (Creole Language Library) Structure And Variation in Language Contact (Creole Language Library)Книги English литература Автор: Ana Deumert, Stephanie Durrleman Год издания: 2006 Формат: pdf Издат.:John Benjamins Publishing Co Страниц: 376 Размер: 2.41 ISBN: 9027252513 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:-

✦ Table of Contents

9027252513......Page 1
Introduction......Page 10
Part II. Variation......Page 8
The phonetics of tone in Saramaccan......Page 18
Tracing the origin of modality in the creoles of Suriname......Page 38
Modeling Creole Genesis: Headedness in morphology......Page 70
The restructuring of tense/aspect systems in Creole formation......Page 94
Syntactic properties of negation in Chinook Jargon, with a comparison to two source languages......Page 120
Sri Lankan Malay morphosyntax: Lankan or Malay?......Page 144
Sri Lanka Malay: Creole or convert?......Page 168
The advantages of a blockage-based etymological dictionary for proven
or putative relexified languages (Extrapolating from the Yiddish experience)......Page 192
A fresh look at habitual be in AAVE......Page 212
Oral narrative and tense in urban Bahamian Creole English......Page 234
Aspects of variation in educated Nigerian Pidgin: Verbal structuresAspects of variation in educated Nigerian Pidgin: Verbal structures......Page 252
A linguistic time-capsule: Plural /s/ reduction in Afro-Portuguese
and Afro-Hispanic historical texts......Page 272
The progressive in the spoken Papiamentu of Aruba......Page 300
Was Haitian ever more like French?......Page 324
The late transfer of serial verb constructions as stylistic variants
in Saramaccan creole......Page 346
Index......Page 382

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Социолингвистика;Языковые контакты и контактные языки;

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