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Creoles, their substrates, and language typology
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Creoles, their substrates, and language typology

Author: Claire Lefebvre
Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2011.
Series: Typological studies in language, v. 95.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Claire Lefebvre
ISBN: 9789027206763 9027206767 9789027287434 9027287430
OCLC Number: 669269900
Description: vii, 626 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Preface, pix; 2. Introduction; 3. The problem of the typological classification of creoles (by Lefebvre, Claire), p3-33; 4. Creoles spoken in Africa and in the Caribbean; 5. Edo influence on Santome: Evidence from verb serialisation (by Hagemeijer, Tjerk), p37-60; 6. A Wolof trace in the verbal system of the Portuguese Creole of Santiago Island (Cape Verde) (by Lang, Jurgen), p61-80; 7. Substrate influences in Kriyol: Guinea-Bissau and Casamance Portuguese-related Creole (by Kihm, Alain), p81-103; 8. One substrate, two creoles: The development of segmental inventories in St. Lucian and Haitian (by Brousseau, Anne-Marie), p105-125; 9. Substrate features in the properties of verbs in three Atlantic creoles: Haitian Creole, Saramaccan and Papiamentu (by Lefebvre, Claire), p127-153; 10. Assessing the nature and role of substrate influence in the formation and development of the creoles of Suriname (by Migge, Bettina), p155-179; 11. African substratal influence on the counterfactual in Belizean Creole (by Escure, Genevieve), p181-200; 12. Substrate features in Nicaraguan, Providence and San Andres Creole Englishes: A comparison with Twi (by Bartens, Angela), p201-224; 13. Palenque(ro): The search for its African substrate (by Schwegler, Armin), p225-249; 14. Creoles spoken in Asia; 15. Convergence-to-substratum and the passives in Singapore English (by Bao, Zhiming), p253-270; 16. Tone in Singlish: Substrate features from Sinitic and Malay (by Lim, Lisa), p271-287; 17. The Cantonese substrate in China Coast Pidgin (by Ansaldo, Umberto), p289-301; 18. Substrate influences in Mindanao Chabacano (by Grant, Anthony P.), p303-324; 19. Negation in Ternate Chabacano (by Sippola, Eeva), p325-336; 20. Aspect and directionality in Kupang Malay serial verb constructions: Calquing on the grammars of substrate languages (by Jacob, June), p337-366; 21. Sri Lanka Malay and its Lankan adstrates (by Ansaldo, Umberto), p367-382; 22. Dravidian features in the Sri Lankan Malay verb (by Slomanson, Peter), p383-409; 23. Creoles spoken in the Pacific; 24. Papuan Malay of New Guinea: Melanesian influence on verb and clause structure (by Donohue, Mark), p413-435; 25. The influence of Arandic languages on Central Australian Aboriginal English (by Koch, Harold), p437-460; 26. Roper River Aboriginal language features in Australian Kriol: Considering semantic categories (by Munro, Jennifer M.), p461-487; 27. Substrate influences on New South Wales Pidgin: The origin of -im and -fela (by Koch, Harold), p489-512; 28. Limits of the substrate: Substrate grammatical influence in Solomon Islands Pijin (by Terrill, Angela), p513-529; 29. Substrate reinforcement and the retention of Pan-Pacific Pidgin features in modern contact varieties (by Siegel, Jeff), p531-556; 30. The copula in Hawai'i Creole English and substrate reinforcement (by Roberts, Sarah J.), p557-573; 31. "On traduit la langue en francais": Substrate influence in the TMA system of Tayo (by Sandeman, Barbara), p575-595; 32. Conclusion; 33. Creoles and language typology (by Comrie, Bernard), p599-611; 34. Index of authors, p613-618; 35. Index of languages and language families, p619-622; 36. Index of subjects, p623-626
Series Title: Typological studies in language, v. 95.
Responsibility: edited by Claire Lefebvre.
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