The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies

by Editor: Silvia Kouwenberg (University of the West Indies); Editor: John Victor Singler (New York University)

ISBN13:
9781444305999
ISBN10:
1444305999
Format: eBook
Copyright: 2009-02-01
Publisher: 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

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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