Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language: Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole - Brossura

Jennings, William; Pfänder, Stefan

 
9783319871974: Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language: Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole
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ISBN 10: 3319871978 ISBN 13: 9783319871974
Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Sinossi

This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the authors employ this dual methodology to reconstruct how multilingual individuals drew on their perception of Romance and West African languages to form French Guianese Creole. In doing so, they facilitate the application of a usage-based approach to language while simultaneously contributing significantly to the debate on creole origins. This innovative volume is sure to appeal to students and scholars of language history, creolisation and languages in contact.

Chapter 3 is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

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Informazioni sull?autore

William Jennings is Senior Lecturer in French language, linguistics and culture at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research interests lie primarily within French colonial and encounter history, with a particular focus on the emergence of creole languages and societies.

Stefan Pfänder is Full Professor of Romance linguistics at Albert-Ludwigs-Universitäts Freiburg, Germany. His teaching focuses on French, Spanish, Italian and Creole, while his research centres around the emergence of grammatical constructions in interaction, and usage-based models of language variation and change.

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This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the authors employ this dual methodology to reconstruct how multilingual individuals drew on their perception of Romance and West African languages to form French Guianese Creole. In doing so, they facilitate the application of a usage-based approach to language while simultaneously contributing significantly to the debate on creole origins. This innovative volume is sure to appeal to students and scholars of language history, creolisation and languages in contact.


William Jennings is Senior Lecturer in French language, linguistics and culture at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research interests lie primarily within French colonial and encounter history, with a particular focus on the emergence of creole languages and societies.

Stefan Pfänder is Full Professor of Romance linguistics at Albert-Ludwigs-Universitäts Freiburg, Germany. His teaching focuses on French, Spanish, Italian and Creole, while his research centres around the emergence of grammatical constructions in interaction, and usage-based models of language variation and change.

Chapter 3 is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

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Editore
Palgrave Macmillan
Data di pubblicazione
2019
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
3319871978
ISBN 13 
9783319871974
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
256
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9783319619514: Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language: Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole

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ISBN 10:  3319619519 ISBN 13:  9783319619514
Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
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