Noun Phrases In Creole Languages

Author : Marlyse Baptista
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027291829
Total Pages : 508 pages
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Download or read book Noun Phrases in Creole Languages written by Marlyse Baptista and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-14 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a thorough examination of the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse properties of noun phrases in a wide variety of creole (and non-creole) languages including Cape Verdean Creole, Santome, Papiamentu, Guinea-Bissau Creole, Mindanao Chabacano, Réunionnais Creole, Lesser Antillean, Haitian Creole, Mauritian Creole, Seychellois, Sranan, Jamaican Creole, Berbice Dutch Creole and African American English. Comparative studies also consider the determiner systems of Middle and Modern French, European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Ewe, Fon and Gun. This compilation of 16 chapters brings together descriptive, theoretical, diachronic and synchronic studies that focus on the structure and interpretation of bare nouns in creoles. The contributions demonstrate the variety and complex nature of determiner systems in creoles and their widespread use of bare nouns in comparison to their source languages. This volume is evidence of the relevance of creole languages to theories of language creation, language change and linguistic theory in general.

Author : Marlyse Baptista
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027252531
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noun Phrases in Creole Languages written by Marlyse Baptista and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a thorough examination of the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse properties of noun phrases in a wide variety of creole (and non-creole) languages including Cape Verdean Creole, Santome, Papiamentu, Guinea-Bissau Creole, Mindanao Chabacano, Réunionnais Creole, Lesser Antillean, Haitian Creole, Mauritian Creole, Seychellois, Sranan, Jamaican Creole, Berbice Dutch Creole and African American English. Comparative studies also consider the determiner systems of Middle and Modern French, European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Ewe, Fon and Gun. This compilation of 16 chapters brings together descriptive, theoretical, diachronic and synchronic studies that focus on the structure and interpretation of bare nouns in creoles. The contributions demonstrate the variety and complex nature of determiner systems in creoles and their widespread use of bare nouns in comparison to their source languages. This volume is evidence of the relevance of creole languages to theories of language creation, language change and linguistic theory in general.

Author : Marlyse Baptista
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Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noun Phrases in Creole Languages written by Marlyse Baptista and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paula Prescod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783895864353
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammatical Description of the Noun Phrase in the English-lexicon Creole of St Vincent and the Grenadines written by Paula Prescod and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Anderson Hall
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pidgin and Creole Languages written by Robert Anderson Hall and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistic, social, and historical examination of all the major pidgin and creole languages of the world.

Author : Jacques Arends
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027299501
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pidgins and Creoles written by Jacques Arends and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1994-12-20 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Susanne Maria Michaelis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199691398
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures written by Susanne Maria Michaelis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlas presents commentaries and colour maps showing how 130 linguistic features - phonological, syntactic, morphological, and lexical - are distributed among the world's pidgins and creoles. Designed and written by the world's leading experts, it is a unique resource of outstanding value for linguists of all persuasions throughout the world.

Author : Petra Sleeman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027287295
Total Pages : 293 pages
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Download or read book The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic written by Petra Sleeman and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the recurrent questions in historical linguistics is to what extent languages can borrow grammar from other languages. It seems for instance hardly likely that each 'average European' language developed a definite article all by itself, without any influence from neighbouring languages. It is, on the other hand, by no means clear what exactly was borrowed, since the way in which definiteness is expressed differs greatly among the various Germanic and Romance languages and dialects. One of the main aims of this volume is to shed some light on the question of what is similar and what is different in the structure of the noun phrase of the various Romance and Germanic languages and dialects, and what causes this similarity or difference.

Author : Irma Aloyce Ewing Cunningham
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book A Syntactic Analysis of Sea Island Creole written by Irma Aloyce Ewing Cunningham and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of the grammatical system of Sea Island Creole (Gullah), this work draws on extensive field research to present a systematic treatment of the syntactic and semantic structures of this English-based Creole language.

Author : Enoch Oladé Aboh
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027252572
Total Pages : 421 pages
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Download or read book Complex Processes in New Languages written by Enoch Oladé Aboh and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, there has been a new interest in evaluating complex structures in languages. The implications of such studies are varied, e.g., the distinction between supposedly more complex and less complex languages, how complexity relates to human knowledge of language, and the role of the reduction or increase of complexity in language change and creolization. This book focuses on the latter issue, but the conclusions presented here hold of typological complexity in general. The chapters in this book show that the notion of complexity as conceived of in linguistics mainly centres on the outer manifestations of language (e.g., numbers of affixes). This exercise is useful in establishing the patterning of languages in terms of their degrees of analyticity or synthesis, but it fails to address the properties of the inner rules of these grammars, and how these relate to the computational system that governs the human language capacity. Put simply, issues of complexity should not be equated with the complexity observed in surface patterns of grammars alone."