Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar

The Case of Haitian Creole

AvClaire Lefebvre,S. R. Anderson

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

Del 88 i serien Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

1 702 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Fler format och utgåvor

Häftad

618 kr

Beskrivning

This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis - relexification, reanalysis and direct levelling - processes which the author demonstrates play a significant role in language genesis and change in general. Dr Lefebvre argues that the creators of pidgins/creoles use the parametric values of their native languages in establishing those of the language that they are creating and the semantic principles of their own grammar in concatenating morphemes and words in the new language. This theory is documented on the basis of a uniquely detailed comparison of Haitian creole with its contributing French and West African languages. Summarizing more than twenty years of funded research, the author examines the input of adult, as opposed to child, speakers and resolves the problems in the three main approaches, universalist, superstratist and substratist, which have been central to the recent debate on creole development.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-01-21
Mått:152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt:870 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Antal sidor:480
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521593823

Utforska kategorier

Språkvetenskap och lingvistik inom Språk och ordböcker

Recensioner i media

"...[this book] is a model of careful argumentation, including clear description of the methods and assumptions involved in the underlying research...the book is admittedly written for those with special interest in pidgin and creole languages..." Linguistics

Innehållsförteckning

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.