Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages write by Viveka Velupillai. This book was released on 2015-04-15. Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics. Part I presents the theoretical background, with chapters devoted to the definition of terms, the sociohistorical settings, theories on the genesis of pidgins and creoles, as well as discussions on language variation and the sociology of language. Part II empirically tests assumptions made about the linguistic characteristics of pidgins and creoles by systematically comparing them with other natural languages in all linguistic domains. This is the first introduction that consistently applies the findings of the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures and systematically includes extended pidgins and mixed languages in the discussion of each linguistic feature. The book is designed for students of courses with a focus on pidgins, creoles and mixed languages, as well as typologically oriented courses on contact linguistics.
Pidgins and Creoles
Pidgins and Creoles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pidgins and Creoles write by Jacques Arends. This book was released on 1994-12-20. Pidgins and Creoles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of previous linguistic knowledge. Part I: General Aspects and Part II: Theories of Genesis constitute the core for presentation and discussion in the classroom, while Part III: Sketches of Individual Languages (such as Eskimo Pidgin, Haitian, Saramaccan, Shaba Swahili, Fa d'Ambu, Papiamentu, Sranan, Berbice Dutch) and Part IV: Grammatical Features (such as TMA particles and auxiliaries, noun phrases, reflexives, serial verbs, fronting) can form the basis for further exploration. A concluding chapter draws together the different strands of argumentation, and the annotated list provides the background information on several hundred pidgins, creoles and mixed languages. Diversity rather than unity is taken to be the central theme, and for the first time in an introduction to pidgins and creoles, the Atlantic creoles receive the attention they deserve. Pidgins are not treated as necessarily an intermediate step on the way to creoles, but as linguistic entities in their own right with their own characteristics. In addition to pidgins, mixed languages are treated in a separate chapter. Research on pidgin and creole languages during the past decade has yielded an abundance of uncovered material and new insights. This introduction, written jointly by the creolists of the University of Amsterdam, could not have been written without recourse to this new material.
Pidgins and Creoles
Pidgins and Creoles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pidgins and Creoles write by Professor Loreto Todd. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Pidgins and Creoles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. `A marvellous feat of culling major issues and synthesising complex arguments.'- Journal of Linguistics `This slender but meaty volume is a good, solid and current introduction.'-Language in Society
Pidgin and Creole Languages
Pidgin and Creole Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pidgin and Creole Languages write by Suzanne Romaine. This book was released on 2017-09-08. Pidgin and Creole Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book defines and describes the linguistic features of these languages and considers the dynamic developments that bring them into being and lead to changes in their structure.
Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 1, Theory and Structure
Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 1, Theory and Structure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 1, Theory and Structure write by John A. Holm. This book was released on 1988-05-05. Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 1, Theory and Structure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This first volume of Holm's major survey of pidgins and creoles provides an up-to-date and readable introduction to a field of study that has become established only in the past few decades. Written for both students and general readers with a basic knowledge of linguistics, the book's original perspective will also attract specialists in the field seeking a broad overview of the linguistic relationships among these languages. Creolized, or restructured versions of English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portugese, and other languages arose during European colonial expansion. These resulted in such creoles as Jamaican, Haitian, Papiamentu, and some one hundred others, as well as such semi-creoles as Afrikaans, non-standard Brazilian Portugese, Papiamentu, and American Black English. Scholars have tended to work on particular language varieties in relative isolation, making comparative research into the genesis, development, and structure of creoles difficult. In writing this book, Holm draws on broad studies of many languages to make clear how far-reaching creoles'similarities are and to challenge current linguistic theories on creoles and pidgins. The emphasis of this volume is largely empirical rather than descriptive. Its core is a comparative study of creoles based on European languages in Africa and the Caribbean that demonstrates the striking similarities among the languages in terms of their lexical semantics, phonology, and syntax. A forthcoming volume provides a socio-historic overview of variety development and text examples, with translations, of the restructured languages.
