Emergence of Hybrid Grammars - Language Contact and Change

Table des matières

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.

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Enoch Olade Aboh, Enoch Oladé Aboh
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780521150224
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15022-4
• Pages: 364
• Thème: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Autres langues / Autres littératures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Language acquisition, Grammar, syntax and morphology