The atlas of Pidgin and Creole language structures

Author(s)

• Michaelis, Susanne
• Maurer, Philippe
• Haspelmath, Martin
• Huber, Magnus
• Revis, Melanie
• Taylor, Bradley

Bibliographic Information

The atlas of Pidgin and Creole language structures

Susanne Maria Michaelis ... [et al.] ; in collaboration with Melanie Revis, Bradley Taylor, and the APiCS Consortium

（The atlas and survey of Pidgin and Creole languages, [atlas]）

Oxford University Press, 2013

• : [hardcover]

Other Title

The atlas of Pidgin & Creole language structures

Note

Other authors: Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath and Magnus Huber

Includes bibliographical references (p. 497-505) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of 130 structural linguistic features drawn from their phonology, syntax, morphology, and lexicons. In addition there are some maps with relevant sociolinguistic features. The languages include pidgins, creoles, and other contact languages based on English, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and French and languages from Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. Each map is accompanied by a detailed description and discussion of the feature. The project is the successor to the successful World Atlas of Language Structures and draws on the same linguistic, cartographic, and computing knowledge and skills of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. The Atlas is published alongside a three-volume Survey of Pidgins and Creoles which describes the histories and linguistic characteristics of 76 languages. The books have been designed, edited, and written by the world's leading experts in the field and represent the most systematic and comprehensive guide ever published to the world's pidgins, creoles and mixed languages. Individually and together the books are a unique resource of outstanding value for linguists of all persuasions throughout the world.

Table of Contents

• 1. Word Order
• 2. Nominal Categories
• 3. Nominal Syntax
• 4. Verbal Categories
• 5. Argument Marking
• 6. Clausal Syntax
• 7. Complex Sentences
• 8. Negation, Questions, and Focusing
• 9. Lexicon
• 10. Phonology
• 11. Sociolinguistics
• References
• Index

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Details

• NCID: BB13300711
• ISBN:
  • 9780199691395
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engcpecppcrpcpf
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xlviii, 522 p.
• Size: 29 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 417.220223
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Pidgin languages -- Maps
  • LCSH : Creole dialects -- Maps
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB13495665