Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 369 Seiten)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Creole language library (CLL) volume 53
Content:
2. Trudgill's challenge: Who needs identity?3. The trouble with the Afrikaans negation; 4. Iconicity in language: Form and meaning; 5. Ideological work: Shaping the voice of the Afrikaner boer; 6. Ideological practice: Speaking like an Afrikaner boer; 7. Conclusion: Language is -- at least sometimes -- choice; References; Bahamian Creole English: Yesterday, today and tomorrow; 1. Introduction; 2. The Bahamian society; 3. Sociolinguistic history of The Bahamas; 4. Decreolisation and the (post)-creole continuum; 5. Conclusion; References
Content:
5. ConclusionAcknowledgements; References; Appendix: Conventions for interlinear glosses; The African diaspora in Latin America: Linguistic contact and consequences; 1. Introduction; 2. The historical presence of creoles in Latin America; 3. The contemporary situation: Vernacular varieties of Spanish and Portuguese; 4. Phonological reductions; 5. Morphosyntactic variation; 6. The problem of explanation; 7. The apparent dearth of creoles in contemporary Latin America; 8. A crucial case: Afro-Bolivian Spanish; 9. Conclusions; References
Content:
Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Organization of the volume; 2. The sociohistorical matrix of creole genesis; 3. The origin and the nature of pidgin and creole grammars; References; Population factors, multilingualism and the emergence of grammar: Population factors, multilingualism and the emergence of grammar; 1. Introduction; 2. Slavery on the Slave Coast: The Kingdom of Allada; 3. Creole languages and language change; 4. The recombination of syntactic features: The na-inni code
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027252777
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9027265445
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027265449
Additional Edition:
Print version Language contact in Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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