Claire Lefebvre (Montreal Universite du Quebec)

Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar

The Case of Haitian Creole
Herausgeber: Anderson, S. R.

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Produktbeschreibung

This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis: relexification, reanalysis, and direct levelling. The role of these processes is documented by a detailed comparison of Haitian creole with its two major contributing languages, French and Fongbe, to illustrate how mechanisms from source languages show themselves in creole.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 705g
• ISBN-13: 9780521025386
• ISBN-10: 0521025389
• Artikelnr.: 22129236

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of abbreviations
1. The problem of creole genesis and linguistic theory
2. Cognitive processes involved in creole genesis
3. The research methodology
4. Functional category lexical entries involved in nominal structure
5. The preverbal markers encoding relative tense, mood and aspect
6. Pronouns
7. Functional category lexical entries involved in the structure of the clause
8. The determiner and the structure of the clause
9. The syntactic properties of verbs
10. Are derivational affixes relexified? 11. The concatenation of words in compounds
12. Parameters
13. Evaluation of the hypothesis
14. Theoretical consequences
Appendices
Notes
References
Indexes.