Substrate and Adstrate - The Origins of Spatial Semantics in West African Pidgincreoles

This volume provides a large-scale, in-depth analysis of locative structures in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English and compares those structures to locatives in their lexifier, substrate, and adstrate languages. The work draws on new research methods for investigating substrate and adstrate influence in semantics and creole genesis.

About the author

Micah Corum, Hamburg University, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Micah Corum
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2015
• EAN: 9781614516200
• ISBN: 978-1-61451-620-0
• No. of pages: 278
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism; Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]; Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]; Language Contact and Bilingualism; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures