Readings in Creole Studies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9309499
AutoresEdgar C Polome (autor de correspondencia), Morris Goodman (0000-0001-6214-1229), Bernd Heine (0000-0002-9304-7814)
EditoresIan F Hancock
Año1979
Páginas352
Fecha de publicación1979-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaReadings in Creole studies (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ssls.2
OpenAlexW1994319568
Open LibraryOL4229755M
ISBN9789064391637
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas25

Creole studies embrace a wide range is disciplines: history, ethnography, geography, sociology, etc. The phenomenon of creolization has come to be recognized as widespread; creolization presupposes contact, and that is a human universal. The present anthology discusses social, historical and theoretical aspects of over twenty pidgins and creoles. Part one deals with general theoretical issues, especially those relating to pidgin language formation and expansion. Part two deals with those pidgins and creoles lexically related to indigenous African languages, and with incipient features of creolization in African languages themselves; part three with those related to Romance languages, and part four with those related to English. Throughout the volume, several current debates are taken up, including the still unsettled issues of creole language origins and classification

Creole language · Geography · Linguistics · African history and culture studies · History · Philosophy · Creole dialects · English Creole dialects · French Creole dialects · Pidgin languages