New PDF release: The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies (Blackwell

By Silvia Kouwenberg, John Victor Singler

ISBN-10: 0631229027

ISBN-13: 9780631229025

That includes a world contributor record, this long-awaited and broad-ranging assortment examines the main concerns, issues and study in pidgin and creole reports. A entire reference paintings exploring the remedy of center features of pidgins/creoles, concentrating on the questions that animate creole studiesBrings jointly newly-commissioned entries by way of a world contributor teamAccessibly dependent into 4 sections masking: the nature of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to different language phenomena and different languages; matters in pidgin/creole genesis; and the position of pidgins/creoles in societyProvides a helpful source for college kids, students and researchers operating throughout a bunch linguistic disciplines, together with sociolinguistics, old linguistics, and the anthropology of language

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247–300. -hist. Classe der kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften). Vienna: Carl Gerold’s Sohn. Schuchardt, Hugo (1909) Die Lingua Franca. Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie 33, 441–61. Singler, John Victor (1996) An OT account of pidgin phonology: Coda consonants in Vernacular Liberian English. In: Jan Johnson, Matthew L. Juge, and Jeri L. ) Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 375–86. Smith, Norval (1995) An annotated list of creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages.

150) Embedded wh-questions follow the same pattern. Some creoles, for example Haitian, allow the option of leaving the wh-expression in situ (De Graff 2007). Like clefts, wh-questions can be introduced (optionally) by the copula-like focus marker: (28) BEL Da hu Mieri kom ya fu sii? ’ 30 Donald Winford (29) HC Se ki moun ki ap vini? ’ (Lumsden 1990, p. 742) This similarity among wh-questions, relatives, and clefts in ACs reflects a pattern found in Kwa languages, where all are “morphologically related through the presence of a copula-type morpheme” (Manfredi 1993, p.

The interaction between Aktionsart and TMA has also been vigorously debated in the literature. For instance, Bickerton’s claim that unmarked statives always have present time reference while unmarked non-statives have simple past reference has been shown to be false, since contextual factors can attach different temporal meanings to each. , Jaganauth 1988; Winford 2000a). The question of how discourse or pragmatic factors influence the interpretation of these markers is still a matter of disagreement (Gooden 2000).

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