Emergence of Hybrid Grammars - Language Contact and Change

Informationen zum Autor Enoch Oladé Aboh is Professor of Linguistics at Universiteit van Amsterdam. His publications include The Morphosyntax of Complement-head Sequences (2004). In 2012 he was awarded the renowned one-year NIAS fellowship, and in 2003 he obtained the prestigious Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) five-year vidi grant to study the relation between information structure and syntax. Klappentext Based on a detailed study of creole languages! this book contributes to the debate on language acquisition and change by showing that language acquisition requires contact between different linguistic sub-systems that feed into the hybrid grammars that learners develop. Competition between these grammars may eventually result in language change. Zusammenfassung Based on a detailed study of creole languages! this book contributes to the debate on language acquisition and change by showing that language acquisition requires contact between different linguistic sub-systems that feed into the hybrid grammars that learners develop. Competition between these grammars may eventually result in language change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Salikoko S. Mufwene; 1. Introduction; 2. The agents of creole formation: geopolitics and cultural aspects of the Slave Coast; 3. The emergence of creoles: a review of some current hypotheses; 4. Competition and selection; 5. The role of vulnerable interfaces in language change: the case of the D-system; 6. The emergence of the clause left periphery; 7. The emergence of serial verb constructions; 8. Conclusions: some final remarks on hybrid grammars, the creole prototype, and language acquisition and change.

Product details

• Authors: Enoch Olade Aboh, Enoch Oladé Aboh
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9780521769983
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76998-3
• No. of pages: 366
• Series: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact; Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Language acquisition, Grammar, syntax and morphology