UID:
almafu_9959236965302883
Format:
1 online resource (323 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-32857-7
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9786613328571
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90-272-7941-1
Series Statement:
Creole language library ; v. 1
Content:
Two of the most prominent hypotheses about why the structures of the Creole languages of the Atlantic and the Pacific differ are the universalist and he substrate hypotheses. The universalist hypothesis claims, essentially, that the particular grammatical properties of Creole languages directly reflect universal aspects of the human language capacity, and thus Creole genesis involves, then, the stripping away of the accretions of language history.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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SUBSTRATA VERSUS UNIVERSALS IN CREOLE GENESIS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Table of contents; Introduction: Problems in the Identification of Substratum Features in the Creole Languages; Who, What, Where and Why?; The contributions to this volume; Synthesis; REFERENCES; The Language Bioprogram Hypothesis: Déjà Vu?; REFERENCES; Creoles and West African Languages: a Case of Mistaken Identity?; NOTES; REFERENCES; Bonnet Blanc et Blanc Bonnet: Adjective-Noun Order, Substratum and Language Universals; 1. The problem and some data; 2. Adjective order in Tok Pisin
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3. Substratum vs. other explanations 4. Conclusions; NOTES; REFERENCES; Semantic Transparency as a Factor in Creole Genesis; NOTE; REFERENCES; The Domestic Hypothesis, Diffusion and Componentiality. An Account of Atlantic Anglophone Creole Origins; 1. Evidence of a pre-1800 anglophone creole on the Coast; 2. Evidence of long-term British settlement on the Coast; 3. Evidence of domestic unions between Europeans and Africans; 4. Emergence of Creole societies; 5. Role of the grumettoes; 6. Evidence for the age and provenance of Guinea Coast Creole English
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(1) The nature of the English first heard by Africans (2) The linguistic situation in Guinea encountered by the English speakers; (3) The emergence of creolized English from English and African contact; (4) Its further modification by second-language speakers; (5) Its transmission overseas and the development of the Western creoles; 7. Summary; WORKS CONSULTED; Genesisand Development of the Equative Copula in Sranan; 1. The data; 2. The pronominal origin of copular da; 3. The historical development of the equative copula
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4. Substrata and universals in the differentiation of the equative category 5. Summary and conclusion; NOTES; APPENDIX: Historical sources used for this study; REFERENCES; The Universalistand Substrate Hypotheses Complement One Another; 1. Why Are We Discussing Only the Universalist and Substrate Hypotheses?; 2. Some High Marks for the Universalist Hypothesis; 3. Is the Substrate Hypothesis All Wrong?; 4. Double Standards regarding Atlantic and Oceanic Pidgins and Creoles?; 5. Couple of Relevant Miscellanea; NOTES; REFERENCES; Universals, Substrata and the Indian Ocean Creoles
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1. Demography and the evolution of Reu and IdF 2. Agglutination; 3. The predicate marker system in IdF and other Creoles; 4. An example of Indo-Aryan syntactic influence in Mauritian Creole; 5. Concluding remarks; NOTES; ANNEXE 1; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Double Negation and the Genesis of Afrikaans; 1. Preliminary considerations; 2. Afrikaans and other languages once spoken at the Cape; 2.1. Introductory remarks; 2.2. Various views on the development of Afrikaans (Hesseling e.a.); 2.3. The linguistic situation at the Cape from a historical point of view; 2.4. Consequences for research
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3. Double negation in Afrikaans
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-5221-1
Language:
English
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