Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction - Brossura

Arends, Jacques; Muysken, Pieter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1556191707 ISBN 13: 9781556191701

Casa editrice: John Benjamins Pub Co, 1995

Riassunto

This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of previous linguistic knowledge. Part I: General Aspects and Part II: Theories of Genesis constitute the core for presentation and discussion in the classroom, while Part III: Sketches of Individual Languages (such as Eskimo Pidgin, Haitian, Saramaccan, Shaba Swahili, Fa d'Ambu, Papiamentu, Sranan, Berbice Dutch) and Part IV: Grammatical Features (such as TMA particles and auxiliaries, noun phrases, reflexives, serial verbs, fronting) can form the basis for further exploration. A concluding chapter draws together the different strands of argumentation, and the annotated list provides the background information on several hundred pidgins, creoles and mixed languages.
Diversity rather than unity is taken to be the central theme, and for the first time in an introduction to pidgins and creoles, the Atlantic creoles receive the attention they deserve. Pidgins are not treated as necessarily an intermediate step on the way to creoles, but as linguistic entities in their own right with their own characteristics. In addition to pidgins, mixed languages are treated in a separate chapter.
Research on pidgin and creole languages during the past decade has yielded an abundance of uncovered material and new insights. This introduction, written jointly by the creolists of the University of Amsterdam, could not have been written without recourse to this new material.

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• Editore: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1556191707
• ISBN 13: 9781556191701
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 430
• Redattore: Smith Norval
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile