Author: Richard Brett
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Category : Hiri Motu language
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Author: Sarah Grey Thomason
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027252394
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 519
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This book contributes to a more balanced view of the most dramatic results of language contact by presenting linguistic and historical sketches of lesser-known contact languages. The twelve case studies offer eloquent testimony against the still common view that all contact languages are pidgins and creoles with maximally simple and essentially identical grammars. They show that some contact languages are neither pidgins nor creoles, and that even pidgins and creoles can display considerable structural diversity and structural complexity; they also show that two-language contact situations can give rise to pidgins, especially when access to a target language is withheld by its speakers. The chapters are arranged according to language type: three focus on pidgins (Hiri Motu, by Tom Dutton; Pidgin Delaware, by Ives Goddard; and Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin, by George L. Huttar and Frank J. Velantie), two on creoles (Kituba, by Salikoko S. Mufwene, and Sango, by Helma Pasch), one on a set of pidgins and creoles (Arabic-based contact languages, by Jonathan Owens), one on the question of early pidginization and/or creolization in Swahili (by Derek Nurse), and five on bilingual mixed languages (Michif, by Peter Bakker and Robert A. Papen; Media Lengua and Callahuaya, both by Pieter Muysken; and Mednyj Aleut and Ma'a, both by Sarah Thomason). The authors' collective goal is to help offset the traditional emphasis, within contact-language studies, on pidgins and creoles that arose as an immediate result of contact with Europeans, starting in the Age of Exploration. The accumulation of case studies on a wide diversity of languages is needed to create a body of knowledge substantial enough to support robust generalizations about the nature and development of all types of contact language.
Author: Stephen Adolphe Wurm
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Category : Motu language
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110819724
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1903
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“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.
Author: J. Donald Bowen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111418812
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Author: John A. Holm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521359405
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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An overview of the socio-historical development of some one hundred different pidgins and creoles.
Author: Stephen Adolphe Wurm
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Category : Austronesian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Author: John E. Reinecke
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Category : Pacific Area
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Author: Lamont Lindstrom
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Category : Austronesian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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