Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe encounters
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Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe encounters
(Creole language library, v. 47)
J. Benjamins, c2014
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Most of what we know about pidgin and creole languages is the result of research into contact languages that developed as a consequence of European expansion into Africa and the Caribbean. The narrow focus on European lexifier and West African substrate languages has resulted in insufficient investigation of other contact varieties. Even more perniciously, lesser known and often under-described contact languages have not been taken into consideration when formulating supposedly general tendencies about the linguistic properties of contact languages. This volume aims to give a platform to research on the history, genesis, and typology of a number of non-European language-based contact languages. A more encompassing and diverse data-base will contribute to more accurate and comprehensive inventories of the typological features of contact languages.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction (by Almoaily, Mohammad)
- 2. Ethnohistory of speaking: Maritime Polynesian Pidgin in a trilogy of historical-sociolinguistic attestations (by Drechsel, Emanuel J.)
- 3. The 'language of Tobi' as presented in Horace Holden's Narrative: Evidence for restructuring and lexical mixture in a Nuclear Micronesian-based pidgin (by Grant, Anthony P.)
- 4. Language variation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic (by Almoaily, Mohammad)
- 5. How non-Indo-European is Fanakalo pidgin?: Selected understudied structures in a Bantu-lexified pidgin with Germanic substrates (by Mesthrie, Rajend)
- 6. Language change in a multiple contact setting: The case of Sarnami (Suriname) (by Yakpo, Kofi)
- 7. Pidgin verbs: Infinitives or imperatives? (by Versteegh, Kees)
- 8. Area index
- 9. Language index
- 10. Subject index
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