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Dynamics of a Creole System

Author : Derek Bickerton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521110150
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Dynamics of a Creole System written by Derek Bickerton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the author describes and systematically accounts for language variation in a Creole-speaking community and assesses the implications the study has on generally accepted notions of the nature of language. Based on an extensive study of Guyana, South America, the volume analyses the bewildering diversity found in the syntax and underlying semantics of tense and aspect of the language of that country and shows that data which at first sight appear merely chaotic in fact represent different developmental stages of the language existing side by side in the contemporary community. The volume also offers strong support for theories of Creole origins of 'Black English' in the United States. It should be of interest not only to those linguists involved in Creole and pidgin studies but also to anyone concerned with general linguistic theory.

Dynamics of a creole system

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Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Dynamics of a creole system written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dynamics of an Australian creole system

Author : John R. Sandefur
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Dynamics of an Australian creole system written by John R. Sandefur and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Determines whether the English related varieties of Aboriginal speech - Torres Strait Creole, Kriol and Aboriginal English - form one linear continuum in accordance with Bickertons model.

Roots of Language

Author : Derek Bickerton
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Roots of Language written by Derek Bickerton and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roots of language was originally published in 1981 by Karoma Press (Ann Arbor). It was the first work to systematically develop a theory first suggested by Coelho in the late nineteenth century: that the creation of creole languages somehow reflected universal properties of language. The book also proposed that the same set of properties would be found to emerge in normal first-language acquisition and must have emerged in the original evolution of language. These proposals, some of which were elaborated in an article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1984), were immediately controversial and gave rise to a great deal of subsequent research in creoles, much of it aimed at rebutting the theory. The book also served to legitimize and stimulate research in language evolution, a topic regarded as off-limits by linguists for over a century. The present edition contains a foreword by the author bringing the theory up to date; a fuller exposition of many of its aspects can be found in the author's most recent work, More than nature needs (Harvard University Press, 2014).

Roots of language

Author : Derek Bickerton
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3946234089
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Roots of language written by Derek Bickerton and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roots of language was originally published in 1981 by Karoma Press (Ann Arbor). It was the first work to systematically develop a theory first suggested by Coelho in the late nineteenth century: that the creation of creole languages somehow reflected universal properties of language. The book also proposed that the same set of properties would be found to emerge in normal first-language acquisition and must have emerged in the original evolution of language. These proposals, some of which were elaborated in an article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1984), were immediately controversial and gave rise to a great deal of subsequent research in creoles, much of it aimed at rebutting the theory. The book also served to legitimize and stimulate research in language evolution, a topic regarded as off-limits by linguists for over a century. The present edition contains a foreword by the author bringing the theory up to date; a fuller exposition of many of its aspects can be found in the author's most recent work, More than nature needs (Harvard University Press, 2014).

Pidgin and Creole Tense-mood-aspect Systems

Author : John Victor Singler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027252262
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Pidgin and Creole Tense-mood-aspect Systems by : John Victor Singler

Download or read book Pidgin and Creole Tense-mood-aspect Systems written by John Victor Singler and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For review see: Mark Sebba, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West Indische Gids, vol. 66, no. 3/4 (1992); p. 288-290.

Development and Structures of Creole Languages

Author : Francis Byrne
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027277826
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Development and Structures of Creole Languages by : Francis Byrne

Download or read book Development and Structures of Creole Languages written by Francis Byrne and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991-03-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career. Each author included in the volume is a noted scholar who has distinguished him/herself in some area of linguistics and has professionally or personally interacted with Bickerton and been influenced by his work. While the papers make independent thematic contributions, they also discuss, augment, present alternatives to, or are inspired in some way by Bickerton's seminal ideas or penetrating analyses. The book is organized into 5 sections, each a reflection of a major research period in Bickerton's career: Section 1: Identifying Creoles; Section 2: Language Variation; Section 3: Creole Processes; Section 4: Creole Syntax and Semantics; Section 5: Serial Verbs.

A Dynamic Systems Theory Perspective on L2 Writing Development

Author : Shaopeng Li
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000554104
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Dynamic Systems Theory Perspective on L2 Writing Development written by Shaopeng Li and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the perspective of empirical complex dynamic systems, this book investigates the complex and nonlinear process of L2 writing centering on three linguistic aspects of L2 writing development: vocabulary, syntax, and discourse. Combining dynamic systems theory, variation analysis, as well as data and cases studies from Chinese EFL learners’ writing, the book critically engages with the heated discussion on dynamic patterns of L2 writing development that focus heavily on the linguistic dimensions of complexity, accuracy, and fluency. The author expands the scope of the research by integrating both linguistic and functional dimensions of L2 output and examines the interaction and co-development of these dimensions. This framework helps delineate a full picture of individual learners’ L2 writing dynamic patterns across all components of their communicative repertoire. The research findings suggest the developmental path of writing system for each EFL learner may differ, which is influenced by their different learning characteristics and learning environments in China. The title will appeal to scholars interested in applied linguistics and second language acquisition. Suggestions on pedagogy and language learning advanced in the book will also make it a useful read for L2 language learner and TESOL and TEFL teachers.

Dimensions of a Creole Continuum

Author : John R. Rickford
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804713771
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Dimensions of a Creole Continuum written by John R. Rickford and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stanford University Press classic.

Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 1, Theory and Structure

Author : John A. Holm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521271080
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 1, Theory and Structure by : John A. Holm

Download or read book Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 1, Theory and Structure written by John A. Holm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-05-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of Holm's major survey of pidgins and creoles provides an up-to-date and readable introduction to a field of study that has become established only in the past few decades. Written for both students and general readers with a basic knowledge of linguistics, the book's original perspective will also attract specialists in the field seeking a broad overview of the linguistic relationships among these languages. Creolized, or restructured versions of English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portugese, and other languages arose during European colonial expansion. These resulted in such creoles as Jamaican, Haitian, Papiamentu, and some one hundred others, as well as such semi-creoles as Afrikaans, non-standard Brazilian Portugese, Papiamentu, and American Black English. Scholars have tended to work on particular language varieties in relative isolation, making comparative research into the genesis, development, and structure of creoles difficult. In writing this book, Holm draws on broad studies of many languages to make clear how far-reaching creoles'similarities are and to challenge current linguistic theories on creoles and pidgins. The emphasis of this volume is largely empirical rather than descriptive. Its core is a comparative study of creoles based on European languages in Africa and the Caribbean that demonstrates the striking similarities among the languages in terms of their lexical semantics, phonology, and syntax. A forthcoming volume provides a socio-historic overview of variety development and text examples, with translations, of the restructured languages.

Bastard Tongues

Author : Derek Bickerton
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429930306
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Bastard Tongues written by Derek Bickerton and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Do Isolated Creole Languages Tend to Have Similar Grammatical Structures? Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research close to the heart of what it means to be human—what language is, how it works, and how it passes from generation to generation, even where historical accidents have made normal transmission almost impossible. The story focuses on languages so low in the pecking order that many people don't regard them as languages at all—Creole languages spoken by descendants of slaves and indentured laborers in plantation colonies all over the world. The story is told by Derek Bickerton, who has spent more than thirty years researching these languages on four continents and developing a controversial theory that explains why they are so similar to one another. A published novelist, Bickerton (once described as "part scholar, part swashbuckling man of action") does not present his findings in the usual dry academic manner. Instead, you become a companion on his journey of discovery. You learn things as he learned them, share his disappointments and triumphs, explore the exotic locales where he worked, and meet the colorful characters he encountered along the way. The result is a unique blend of memoir, travelogue, history, and linguistics primer, appealing to anyone who has ever wondered how languages grow or what it's like to search the world for new knowledge.

Creoles, Their Substrates, and Language Typology

Author : Claire Lefebvre
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027206767
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Creoles, Their Substrates, and Language Typology written by Claire Lefebvre and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For example, creole languages typologically pair with their superstrate languages (Chaudenson 2003), with their substrate languages (Lefebvre 1998), or even, creole languages are alike (Bickerton 1984) such that they constitute a definable typological class (McWhorter 1998). This book contains 25 chapters bearing on detailed comparisons of some 30 creoles and their substrate languages. As the substrate languages of these creoles are typologically different, the detailed investigation of substrate features in the creoles leads to a particular answer to the question of how creoles should be classified typologically. The bulk of the data show that creoles reproduce the typological features of their substrate languages. This argues that creoles cannot be claimed to constitute a definable typological class."

Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages

Author : Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027275459
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages by : Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh

Download or read book Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages written by Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-02-12 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic notions in the field of creole studies, including the category of “creole languages” itself, have been questioned in recent years: Can creoles be defined on structural or on purely sociohistorical grounds? Can creolization be understood as a graded process, possibly resulting in different degrees of “radicalness” and intermediate language types (“semi-creoles”)? If so, by which linguistic structures are these characterized, and by which extralinguistic conditions have they been brought about? Which are the linguistic mechanisms underlying processes of restructuring, and how did grammaticalization and reanalysis shape the reorganization of linguistic, specifically morphosyntactic structures commonly called “creolization”? What is the role of language contact, language mixing, substrates and superstrates, or demographic factors in these processes? This volume provides select and revised papers from a 1998 colloquium at the University of Regensburg in which these questions were addressed. 19 contributions by renowned scholars discuss structural, sociohistorical and theoretical aspects, building upon case studies of both Romance-based and English-oriented creoles. This book marks a major step forward in our understanding of the nature of creolization.

Predication in Caribbean English Creoles

Author : Donald Winford
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027276951
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Predication in Caribbean English Creoles written by Donald Winford and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-21 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major study of the conservative or basilectal English creoles of the Anglophone Caribbean since Bailey's (1966) and Bickerton's (1975) descriptions of Jamaican and Guyanese Creole respectively. The book offers a comprehensive, unified treatment of the core areas of CEC predication, including the verb complex, auxiliary ordering, voice and valency, copular and attributive predication, serial verb constructions and complementation. Particularly note-worthy is its utilization of an extremely rich data base and a variety of sources to provide an up-to-date, state of the art account of predicate structures in CEC. The book presents new analyses of several areas of CEC syntax, including such phenonema as passivization, serialization and complementation, which have not been thoroughly analyzed, if at all, in the previous literature. The areas covered in the book involve a wide range of grammatical phenomena centering around the various sub-classes of verb and their subcategorization. The book consists of an introduction, a conclusion, and six chapters, each of which explores some aspect of the behavior of verbs (or verb-like predicators) and the constructions in which they occur. The book is intended to be a pre-theoretical account of the facts of CEC predication. However, to further elucidate the workings of the grammar and add some degree of explicitness to the description, the author also presents more formal analyses of the grammatical phenomena, employing the framework of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG).

Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse

Author : John R. Rickford
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027252425
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse written by John R. Rickford and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection in honor of creolist Charlene Junko Sato (1951-1996) brings together contributions by leading specialists in pidgin-creole studies in three primary areas: Pidgin-Creole Genesis and Development; Attitudes and Education, and Creole Discourse and Literature. The varieties covered come from English, French and Spanish lexical bases and from places as far apart as Africa, Australia, Hawaii, and the Caribbean. Editors Rickford and Romaine introduce each of the papers and provide a biography and bibliography of Sato. A short story and poems in Hawaiian Creole, Sato's native language and the variety which was the focus of her research and writing, round out the collection.

Pidgins and Creoles: Current Trends and Prospects

Author : David De Camp
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780878402069
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Pidgins and Creoles: Current Trends and Prospects written by David De Camp and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of work on pidgins and creoles that includes discussions of the English-derived creole of San Andres Island and the French-derived creole of Cayenne, the theoretical contributions of creolistics to general linguistic theory, decreolization, generative phonological treatment of a hypothesized English-derived proto-creole, and the little-known Shelta language.

A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles

Author : Anand Syea
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000996824
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles by : Anand Syea

Download or read book A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles written by Anand Syea and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles provides a detailed, comprehensive description of the morphology, grammar, and syntax of a selected number of English creoles, including those spoken on both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific. This book: • Focuses on a number of traditional grammatical categories to provide a comprehensive description and discussion of these languages; • Identifies not only how creoles differ from their lexifier, but also how they differ from one another; • Provides effective comparative descriptions to enable an insightful understanding of language evolution. This book will be ideal supplementary reading for students and researchers of linguistics, and will particularly appeal to those with an interest in descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, World Englishes, contact and creole linguistics, and language policy and planning.