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Title Atlantic meets Pacific : a global view of Pidginization and Creolization ; elected papers from the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics) / edited by Francis Byrne and John Holm
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 465 pages) : maps
Series Creole language library, 0920-9026 ; v. 11
Creole language library ; v. 11. 0920-9026
Contents ATLANTIC MEETS PACIFIC; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION: PERSPECTIVES ON THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC ... AND BEYOND; 1.0. The Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics; 2.0. Why the Atlantic has not been meeting the Pacific; 3.0. The Contents; 3.1. Phonology; 3.2. Morphology and Syntax; 3.3. Social Concerns; 3.4. Pidgins and Pidginization; 3.5. Creoles and Creolization; 3.6. Other Contact-Induced Phenomena; NOTES; REFERENCES; SECTION ONE: PHONOLOGY
LATENT INTERVOCALIC LIQUIDS IN ALUKU: LINKS TO THE PHONOLOGICAL PAST OF A MAROON CREOLE 1.0. Introduction; 2.0. Loss of Intervocalic Liquids; 3.0. Latent Intervocalic Liquids; 4.0. Conclusion; NOTES; REFERENCES; ON ONSETS: EXPLAINING NEGER HOLLANDS INITIAL CLUSTERS; 1.0. Introduction; 2.0. Frequency Analysis; 3.0. Modification of Negerhollands Syllable Onsets; 4.0. Conclusion; NOTES; REFERENCES; SECTION TWO: MORPHOLOGY & SYNTAX; COMPLEMENTIZERS & PREPOSITIONS; A BANTU MODEL FOR THE SEYCHELLOIS 'POUR-DIRE' COMPLEMENTIZER; REFERENCES
POLYSEMIC FUNCTIONALITY OF PREPOSITIONS IN PIDGINS & CREOLES: THE CASE OF 'FÒ' IN ANGLO-NIGERIAN PIDGIN 1.0. Introduction; 2.1. Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin; 2.0. fó; 2.1. fó: Origin and Nature; 2.2. fó as a Polysemic Preposition; 2.3. Prepositional Complexes (with fò)in ANP; 2.4. Other Prepositions in ANP; 2.5. Other (functional) Uses of fò in ANP; 3.0. Implications of the Prepositional Comportment of fò in ANP; 4.0. Conclusion; NOTES; REFERENCES; EMPTY CATEGORIES; IS HAITIAN CREOLE A Pro-DROP LANGUAGE?; 1.0. Introduction; 2.0. Empty Expletive Subjects; 3.0. 'Subject' Pronouns as Clitics
4.0. Structure of INFL in HA4.1. AUX in HA; 4.2. AGR in HA; 4.3. Summary; 5.0. [COMP-trace] Effects in HA; 6.0. INFL and Serial Verb Constructions; 6.1. SVCs in HA; 6.2. Analysis; 7.0. Conclusions; NOTES; REFERENCES; NULL SUBJECT IN MAURITIAN CREOLE AND THE Pro-DROP PARAMETER1; 1.0. Introduction; 2.0. Pro-Drop Parameter; 3.0. Distribution; 4.0. Interpretation; 5.0. Status of the Null Subjects; 6.0. Conclusion; NOTES; REFERENCES; PRONOMINALS; THE MAURITIAN CREOLE 'LEKOR' REFLEXIVE: SUBSTRATE INFLUENCE ON THE TARGET-LOCATION PARAMETER; 1.0. Introduction
2.0. The 'lekor' Data: An Unusual Asymmetry in Early Mauritian Creole 3.0. Reflexive Typology and the Target-Location Parameter; 4.0. A Possible Explanation: Influence from Malagasy; 5.0. Conclusion; NOTES; REFERENCES; CLITICIZATION OF PRONOUNS IN BERBICE DUTCH CREOLE AND EASTERN!JO; 1.0. Introduction; 1.1. Historical and Linguistic Background; 2.0. Eastern!jq Pronouns: The Data; 3.0. Eastern-!jq Pronouns: An Analysis; 4.0. Berbice Dutch Pronouns: The Data; 5.0. Substrate versus Creole; NOTES; REFERENCES; ARE THERE POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS IN ATLANTIC CREOLES?; 1.0. Introduction
Summary Selected papers from the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Pidgin languages.
Creole dialects.
Languages in contact.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Creole Languages.
Creole dialects
Languages in contact
Pidgin languages
Kreolisierung
Pidgintalen.
Creooltalen.
Langues créoles.
Langues en contact.
Pidjins (Langues)
Pidgin-Sprachen.
Kreolische Sprachen.
Form Electronic book
Author Byrne, Francis.
Holm, John A.
Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics.
LC no. 92037121
ISBN 9789027277411
9027277419
1283328143
9781283328142
9786613328144
6613328146