Creole genesis and the acquisition of grammar : the case of Haitian creole
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Creole genesis and the acquisition of grammar : the case of Haitian creole
（Cambridge studies in linguistics, 88）
Cambridge University Press, 2006, c1998
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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"This digitally printed first paperback version 2006."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-451) and index
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This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis - relexification, reanalysis and direct levelling - processes which the author demonstrates play a significant role in language genesis and change in general. Dr Lefebvre argues that the creators of pidgins/creoles use the parametric values of their native languages in establishing those of the language that they are creating and the semantic principles of their own grammar in concatenating morphemes and words in the new language. This theory is documented on the basis of a uniquely detailed comparison of Haitian creole with its contributing French and West African languages. Summarizing more than twenty years of funded research, the author examines the input of adult, as opposed to child, speakers and resolves the problems in the three main approaches, universalist, superstratist and substratist, which have been central to the recent debate on creole development.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1. The problem of creole genesis and linguistic theory
- 2. Cognitive processes involved in creole genesis
- 3. The research methodology
- 4. Functional category lexical entries involved in nominal structure
- 5. The preverbal markers encoding relative tense, mood and aspect
- 6. Pronouns
- 7. Functional category lexical entries involved in the structure of the clause
- 8. The determiner and the structure of the clause
- 9. The syntactic properties of verbs
- 10. Are derivational affixes relexified? 11. The concatenation of words in compounds
- 12. Parameters
- 13. Evaluation of the hypothesis
- 14. Theoretical consequences
- Appendices
- Notes
- References
- Indexes.
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