The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies
by Editor: Silvia Kouwenberg (University of the West Indies); Editor: John Victor Singler (New York University)Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2009-02-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies. A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language
Table of Contents
| List of Abbreviations | |
| Introduction | |
| Properties of Pidgins and Creoles. | |
| Atlantic Creole Syntax | |
| Forging Pacific Pidgin and Creole Syntax: Substrate, Discourse, and Inherent Variability | |
| Pidgin and Creole Morphology | |
| Creole Phonology | |
| Pidgins versus Creoles and Pidgincreoles | |
| Non-Indo-European Pidgins and Creoles | |
| Perspectives on Pidgin/Creole Genesis. | |
| Pidgins/Creoles, and Second Language Acquisition | |
| Creole Genesis: The Impact of the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis | |
| Pidgins/Creoles and Historical Linguistics | |
| Pidgins/Creoles and Contact Languages: An Overview | |
| Creole Studies and Multilingualism | |
| A Demographic Perspective on Creole Formation | |
| The Sociohistorical Context of Creole Genesis | |
| The Cultural in Pidgin Genesis | |
| Pidgins/Creoles and Linguistic Explanation. | |
| Grammaticalization in Pidgins and Creoles | |
| Creoles, Markedness, and Default Settings: An Appraisal | |
| Semantic Evidence in Pidgin and Creole Genesis | |
| Pidgins, Creoles, and Variation | |
| Pidgins/Creoles and Kindred Languages. | |
| The Case of Signed Languages in the Context of Pidgin and Creole Studies | |
| Pidgins/Creoles and African American English | |
| Spanish-Based Creoles in the Caribbean | |
| Pidgins/Creoles in Society. | |
| Pidgins/Creoles and Discourse | |
| Pidgins/Creoles and Education | |
| Language Planning in Pidgins and Creoles | |
| Literary Representations of Creole Languages: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives from the Caribbean | |
| Author Index | |
| Language Index | |
| Subject Index | |
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