Author: Jones E. Mondesir
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110877260
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
Dictionary of St. Lucian Creole
Author: Jones E. Mondesir
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110877260
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110877260
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
Dictionary of St. Lucian Creole
Author: Lawrence D. Carrington
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110126259
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110126259
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Dictionary of St. Lucian Creole
Author: Lawrence D. Carrington
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Saint Lucian Creole
Author: Lawrence D. Carrington
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Category : Creole dialects, French
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Category : Creole dialects, French
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Dictionary of Languages
Author: Andrew Dalby
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408102145
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Covering the political, social and historical background of each language, Dictionary of Languages offers a unique insight into human culture and communication. Every language with official status is included, as well as all those that have a written literature and 175 'minor' languages with special historical or anthropological interest. We see how, with the rapidly increasing uniformity of our culture as media's influence spreads, more languages have become extinct or are under threat of extinction. The text is highlighted by maps and charts of scripts, while proverbs, anecdotes and quotations reveal the features that make a language unique.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408102145
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Covering the political, social and historical background of each language, Dictionary of Languages offers a unique insight into human culture and communication. Every language with official status is included, as well as all those that have a written literature and 175 'minor' languages with special historical or anthropological interest. We see how, with the rapidly increasing uniformity of our culture as media's influence spreads, more languages have become extinct or are under threat of extinction. The text is highlighted by maps and charts of scripts, while proverbs, anecdotes and quotations reveal the features that make a language unique.
An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl
Author: Frances E. Karttunen
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806124216
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This is a comprehensive modern dictionary of the major indigenous language of Mexico, the language of the Aztecs and many of their neighbors. Nahuatl speakers became literate within a generation of contact with Europeans, and a vast literature has been composed in Nahuatl beginning in the mid-sixteenth century and continuing to the present.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806124216
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This is a comprehensive modern dictionary of the major indigenous language of Mexico, the language of the Aztecs and many of their neighbors. Nahuatl speakers became literate within a generation of contact with Europeans, and a vast literature has been composed in Nahuatl beginning in the mid-sixteenth century and continuing to the present.
Creoles, Contact, and Language Change
Author: Geneviève Escure
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027252494
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of creolists' current research interests. All of the contributions address questions directly relevant to pidgin/creole studies and other contact languages. The majority of papers address issues of morphology or syntax. Some of the contributions make use of phonological analysis while others study language development from the point of view of acquisition. A few papers examine discourse strategies and style, or broader issues of social and ethnic identity. While this array of topics and perspectives is reflective of the diversity of the field, there is also much common ground in that all of the papers adduce solid data corpora to support their analyses. The range of languages analyzed spans the planet, as approximately twenty contact varieties are studied in this volume.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027252494
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of creolists' current research interests. All of the contributions address questions directly relevant to pidgin/creole studies and other contact languages. The majority of papers address issues of morphology or syntax. Some of the contributions make use of phonological analysis while others study language development from the point of view of acquisition. A few papers examine discourse strategies and style, or broader issues of social and ethnic identity. While this array of topics and perspectives is reflective of the diversity of the field, there is also much common ground in that all of the papers adduce solid data corpora to support their analyses. The range of languages analyzed spans the planet, as approximately twenty contact varieties are studied in this volume.
Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage
Author: Richard Allsopp
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789766401450
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
This remarkable new dictionary represents the first attempt in some four centuries to record the state of development of English as used across the entire Caribbean region.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789766401450
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
This remarkable new dictionary represents the first attempt in some four centuries to record the state of development of English as used across the entire Caribbean region.
Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology
Author: Claire Lefebvre
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027287430
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
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 linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For example, creole languages typologically pair with their superstrate languages (Chaudenson 2003), with their substrate languages (Lefebvre 1998), or even, creole languages are alike (Bickerton 1984) such that they constitute a “definable typological class” (McWhorter 1998). This book contains 25 chapters bearing on detailed comparisons of some 30 creoles and their substrate languages. As the substrate languages of these creoles are typologically different, the detailed investigation of substrate features in the creoles leads to a particular answer to the question of how creoles should be classified typologically. The bulk of the data show that creoles reproduce the typological features of their substrate languages. This argues that creoles cannot be claimed to constitute a definable typological class.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027287430
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
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 linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For example, creole languages typologically pair with their superstrate languages (Chaudenson 2003), with their substrate languages (Lefebvre 1998), or even, creole languages are alike (Bickerton 1984) such that they constitute a “definable typological class” (McWhorter 1998). This book contains 25 chapters bearing on detailed comparisons of some 30 creoles and their substrate languages. As the substrate languages of these creoles are typologically different, the detailed investigation of substrate features in the creoles leads to a particular answer to the question of how creoles should be classified typologically. The bulk of the data show that creoles reproduce the typological features of their substrate languages. This argues that creoles cannot be claimed to constitute a definable typological class.
An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles
Author: John Holm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521585811
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521585811
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.