The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Zusatztext well written, extensively researched, and brilliantly argued ... superb contribution to the field. Informationen zum Autor Jeff Siegel is Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at the University of New England in Australia and an Associate Researcher at the University of Hawai'i. His main research interests are in contact varieties of language in the Australia-Pacific region. His published work includes Language Contact in a Plantation Environment: a Sociolinguistic History of Fiji (CUP, 1988), Processes of Language Contact: Studies from Australia and the South Pacific (Fides, 2000), and articles in Language in Society, Studies in Language, Applied Linguistics, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. Klappentext This book examines the emergence of pidgins and creoles and the controversies surrounding current theories about them. Among the questions considered are why their grammars are simple, at the pidgin-creole-postcreole life cycle, and the causes of grammatical innovation. The analysis is supported with detailed examples and case studies. Zusammenfassung This book examines the emergence of pidgins and creoles and the controversies surrounding current theories about them. Among the questions considered are why their grammars are simple, at the pidgin-creole-postcreole life cycle, and the causes of grammatical innovation. The analysis is supported with detailed examples and case studies.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Siegel, Jeff (University of New England in Australia) Siegel, Siegel Jeff
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2008
• EAN: 9780199216673
• ISBN: 978-0-19-921667-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 273 mm x 159 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Oxford Linguistics; Oxford Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Anthropology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Language acquisition, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Pidgins and Creoles, Pidgins & Creoles