Creolization and contact:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Benjamins c2001
Series:Creole language library v. 23
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Creolization and Contact; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Relexification in creole genesis and its effects on the development of the creole; Chapter 2: Voodoo Chile; Chapter 3: Language intertwining; Chapter 4: Paralexification in language intertwining; Chapter 5: Pidginization, creolization and creoloids in Stockholm, Sweden; Chapter 6: The origin of creole languages; Chapter 7: Koine formation and creole genesis; Chapter 8: Koineization and creole genesis; Chapter 9: Convergence and explanations in creole genesis
This volume contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the papers presented at "The Amsterdam Workshop on Language Contact and Creolization." These studies apply the concept of relexification to creoles as well as other contact languages; highlight the relevance of strategies of second language learning for theories of pidgin/creole genesis; critically discuss the notions levelling (koine formation) and convergence; the relation between types of contact situations and processes of crosslinguistic influence; as well as the linguistic consequences of the social structure of the pla
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 323 p.)
ISBN:0585461899
1588111113
9027297711
9780585461892
9789027297716

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