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This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis: relexification, reanalysis, and direct levelling. The... Læs mere
Professor Gilbert has edited and translated a coherent selection of the most important essays of Hugo Schuchardt, comprising his studies of the English-based creoles and two of his major theoretical papers on the Lingua Franca and the Language of the Saramacca Negroes in Surinam.
This book provides one of the best and most thorough studies available in English of the syntax of a non-Indo-European language.
In this volume the author describes and systematically accounts for language variation in a Creole-speaking community and assesses the implications the study has on generally... Læs mere
Language, Mind and Nature is a 2007 text which fully reconstructs this artificial language movement. In so doing, it reveals a great deal about the beliefs and activities of those who sought to reform learning in seventeenth-century England.
This case study aims to provide an insight into the language use of Afro-Caribbeans in London. It places emphasis on the linguistic background of the community and in particular on young people of the first and second British-born generations.
Analyses English negation over the evidence from the sample of Old English documents, and from Middle English and Renaissance documents, showing that the range of forms used at a single stage is wider, and the pace of their change considerably faster.
In this first book of its kind, Dany Adone demonstrates how children acquire Creoles as their first language and how this differs... Læs mere
Proposing a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual... Læs mere
Originally published in 1937, this highly influential book examines the 'secret' languages of Ireland, particularly the Shelta tongue spoken by Irish Travellers, and the... Læs mere
Creole specialists have long argued that it is wrong to think of creoles as anything but language blends, in the same way that Yiddish is a blend of German, Hebrew and Slavic. This... Læs mere
`A marvellous feat of culling major issues and synthesising complex arguments.'- Journal of Linguistics `This slender but meaty volume is a good, solid and current introduction.'-Language in Society