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Informationen zum Autor Claire Lefebvre is Professor of Linguistics at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. She has worked for more than thirty years on the problem of creole genesis in all areas of the grammar. Klappentext In this book, Claire Lefebrve offers a coherent picture of research on relabeling over the last 15 years, and replies to the questions that have been directed at the relabeling-based theory of creole genesis presented in Lefebvre (1998) and related work. Zusammenfassung In this book, Claire Lefebrve offers a coherent picture of research on relabeling over the last 15 years, and replies to the questions that have been directed at the relabeling-based theory of creole genesis presented in Lefebvre (1998) and related work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Relabeling: A Central Process in Language Contact/Genesis Chapter 3: A Relabeling-Based Theory of Creole Genesis Chapter 4: Relabeling in Two Different Theories of the Lexicon Renée Lambert-Brétière and Claire Lefebvre Chapter 5: Relabeling and Word Order: A Construction Grammar Perspective Claire Lefebvre and Renée Lambert-Brétière Chapter 6: Relabeling options: On Some Differences between Haitian and Saramaccan Chapter 7: Relabeling and the Contribution of the Superstrate Languages to Creoles Chapter 8: Relabeling and the Typological Classification of Creoles Chapter 9: Conclusion: A Strong Alternative to the Bioprogram Hypothesis References Index of Subjects Index of Authors
