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1 online resource |
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Creole language library ; 47 |
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Creole language library ; 47
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Introduction / Mohammad Almoaily, Anders Holmberg (Newcastle Unviersity) and Isabelle Buchstaller (Leipzig University) -- 1. Ethnohistory of Speaking: Maritime Polynesian Pidgin 1 in a Trilogy of Historical-Sociolinguistic Attestations -- Emanuel J. Drechsel (University of Hawaii at Manoa) -- 2. The Language of Tobi as presented in Horace Holden's : Narrative: Evidence for Restructuring and Lexical Mixture in a Nuclear Micronesian-based Pidgin / Anthony P. Grant (Edge Hill University) -- 3. Language Variation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic / Mohammad Almoaily (Newcastle University) -- 4. How Non-Indo-European is Fanakalo Pidgin?: Selected Understudied : Structures in a Bantu-Lexified Pidgin with Germanic Substrates / Rajend Mesthrie, University of Cape Town. -- 5. Language Change in a Multiple Contact Setting: The Case of Sarnami (Suriname) / Kofi Yakpo and Pieter Muysken (Radboud University Nijmegen) -- 6. Pidgin Verbs: Infinitives or Imperatives? / Kees Versteegh (University of Nijmegen) |
| Summary |
Evidence from Arabic-based pidgins, such as Bongor Arabic, Juba Arabic, Pidgin Madame, and Gulf Pidgin Arabic, and from the Arabic-based creole Ki-Nubi, shows that in these varieties verbs often derive from Arabic imperatives. In some of the West European-based pidgins, verbs apparently derive from infinitives in the lexifier. The difference may be explained by the morphology of the verb in the lexifier. In the communicative context of early pidginization, commands are frequent. These are normally expressed by an imperative, but in some languages, the infinitive may function as a directive and |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Pidgin languages -- Grammar, Historical
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Creole dialects -- Grammar
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Languages in contact.
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Linguistic change.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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Creole dialects -- Grammar
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Languages in contact
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Linguistic change
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Buchstaller, Isabelle, editor
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Holmberg, Anders, editor
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Almoaily, Mohammad, editor
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| ISBN |
9789027270764 |
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9027270767 |
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1306309107 |
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9781306309103 |
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902725270X |
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9789027252708 |
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