Pidgins and Creoles - Current Trends and Prospects

A collection of work on pidgins and creoles that includes discussions of the English-derived creole of San Andres Island and the French-derived creole of Cayenne, the theoretical contributions of creolistics to general linguistic theory, decreolization, and generative phonological treatment of a hypothesized English-derived proto-creole.

Summary

A collection of work on pidgins and creoles that includes discussions of the English-derived creole of San Andres Island and the French-derived creole of Cayenne, the theoretical contributions of creolistics to general linguistic theory, decreolization, and generative phonological treatment of a hypothesized English-derived proto-creole.

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• Authors: David de Camp, David DeCamp, Ian Hancock
• Assisted by: David DeCamp (Editor), Ian Hancock (Editor)
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780878402069
• ISBN: 978-0-87840-206-9
• No. of pages: 142
• Weight: 680 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics