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1 online resource (645 pages) |
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Studies in diversity linguistics |
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Studies in diversity linguistics.
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| Summary |
Pichi is an Afro-Caribbean English-lexifier Creole spoken on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. It is an offshoot of 19th century Krio (Sierra Leone) and shares many characteristics with West African relatives like Nigerian Pidgin, Cameroon Pidgin, and Ghanaian Pidgin English, as well as with the English-lexifier creoles of the insular and continental Caribbean. This comprehensive description presents a detailed analysis of the grammar and phonology of Pichi. It also includes a collection of texts and wordlists. Pichi features a nominative-accusative alignment, SVO word order, adjective-noun order, prenominal determiners, and prepositions. The language has a seven-vowel system and twenty-two consonant phonemes. Pichi has a two-tone system with tonal minimal pairs, morphological tone, and tonal processes. The morphological structure is largely isolating |
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Linguistics |
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Creole Languages |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Knowledge Unlatched 104795 Language Science Press 2018 - 2020 |
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English |
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
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Equatorial Guinean Pidgin language -- Grammar
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Creole dialects, English -- Equatorial Guinea -- Grammar
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Pidgin languages -- Equatorial Guinea -- Grammar
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Linguistics.
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Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics.
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Creole dialects, English -- Grammar
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Equatorial Guinea
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3961101337 |
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9783961101344 |
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3961101345 |
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9783961101337 |
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