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Structure and variation in language contact

Title
Structure and variation in language contact / edited by Ana Deumert, Stephanie Durrleman.
Publication
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Deumert, Ana.
  • Durrleman, Stephanie.
Description
viii, 376 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Creole language library, 0920-9026 ; v. 29
Uniform Title
Creole language library ; v. 29.
Subject
  • Languages in contact
  • Language and languages > Variation
  • Kreolische Sprachen
  • Pidgin-Sprachen
  • Sprachkontakt
  • Sprachwandel
  • Taalcontact
  • Taalvariatie
  • Creooltalen
  • Variation > (Sprachwiss.) > Kongressbericht
  • Interferenz > (zwischen Sprachen) > Sprachwandel > Kongressbericht
  • Sprachwandel > Interferenz (zwischen Sprachen) > Kongressbericht
  • Sprachkontakt > Sprachvariante > Aufsatzsammlung
  • Sprachvariante > Sprachkontakt > Aufsatzsammlung
  • Språkkontakter
  • Språkvariation
  • Blandspråk
  • Kreolische Sprachen
  • Pidgin-Sprachen
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Ana Deumert and Stephanie Durrleman -- The phonetics of tone in Saramaccan / Jeff Good -- Tracing the origin of modality in the creoles of Suriname / Bettina Migge -- Modelling creole genesis: headedness in morphology / Tonjes Veenstra -- The restructuring of tense/aspect systems in creole formation / Donald Winford -- Syntactic properties of negation in Chinook Jargon, with a comparison of two source languages / Zvjezdana Vrzić -- Sri Lankan Malay morphosyntax: Lankan or Malay? / Peter Slomanson -- Sri Lanka Malay: creole or convert? / Ian Smith and Scott Paauw -- The advantages of a blockage-based etymological dictionary for proven or putative relexified languages (extrapolating from the Yiddish experience) / Paul Wexler -- A fresh look at habitual be in AAVE / Chris Collins -- Oral narrative and tense in urban Bahamian Creole English / Stephanie Hackert -- Aspects of variation in educated Nigerian Pidgin: verbal structures / Dagmar Deuber -- A linguistic time-capsule: plural /s/ reduction in Afro-Portuguese and Afro-Hispanic historical texts / Fernanda L. Ferreira -- The progressive in the spoken Papiamentu of Aruba / Tara Sanchez -- Was Haitian ever more like French? / Mikael Parkvall -- The late transfer of serial verb constructions as stylistic variants in Saramaccan creole / Marvin Kramer.
ISBN
  • 9027252513
  • 9789027252517
LCCN
  • 2006049872
  • 9789027252517
OCLC
  • ocm70676642
  • 70676642
  • SCSB-8810323
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library