Format:
1 online resource (426 pages)
ISBN:
9789027265739
Content:
Intro -- Creole Studies - Phylogenetic Approaches -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Key concepts in the history of creole studies -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Creole studies -- 2.3 Issues in creole studies -- 2.3.1 General characteristics -- 2.3.2 Sociohistory of creoles and creolization -- 2.3.3 Development: Pidgin stage or not -- 2.3.4 Influences from input languages -- 2.3.5 Complexity of Creoles -- 2.3.6 Creators of creoles -- 2.3.7 Gradual or quick -- 2.3.8 Location -- 2.3.9 Reasons for perceived similarities -- 2.3.10 Semantics -- 2.4 Research on creole languages and the contributions to this book -- References -- Chapter 3. Phylogenetics in biology and linguistics -- 3.1 Origin of phylogenetics in biology and linguistics -- 3.2 Phylogenetic studies in linguistics -- 3.3 Dated language phylogenies -- 3.4 Is linguistic evolution tree-like? -- 3.5 Other lateral influences between biology and linguistics -- 3.6 Creoles, stable features and their substrates and lexifiers -- 3.7 Creoles and genetic affiliation: Stammbaum, convergence, contact -- 3.8 A cognitive account of creole genesis -- 3.9 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4. Methods: On the use of networks in the study of language contactOn the use of networks in the study of language contact -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Steps of analysis: Encoding, representation, and interpretation -- 4.3 Data types -- 4.3.1 Lexical data -- 4.3.2 Typological data -- 4.4 Data coding -- 4.5 Networks and trees -- 4.6 Interpreting the results -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5. Creole typology I: Comparative overview of creole languages -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Phonology -- 5.2.1 Creole segmental inventories -- 5.2.2 Creole phonotactics -- 5.2.3 Creole suprasegmentals -- 5.2.4 Summary of Creole phonology -- 5.3 Creole morphology.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027212498
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789027212498
Language:
English
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