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Author : Peter Mühlhäusler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106007450403
Author : Peter Mühlhäusler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015009313670
Author : Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110820775
The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Author : Hanna Pishwa
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 3823350641
Author : Suzanne Romaine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : 0198239661
This book examines some of the changes that are taking place in Tok Pisin, an English-based pidgin, as it becomes the native language of the younger generation of rural and urban speakers.
Author : Jeff Siegel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199216666
This book examines the emergence of pidgins and creoles and the controversies surrounding current theories about them. Among the questions considered are why their grammars are simple, at the pidgin-creole-postcreole life cycle, and the causes of grammatical innovation. The analysis is supported with detailed examples and case studies.
Author : Jeff Siegel
Publisher : Les Editions Fides
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Creole dialects, English
ISBN : 2762120985
Author : Glenn Gilbert
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780824882150
This book is for the memory of John E. Reinecke, a man whose humanistic activism and sharp-hewn scholarship helped to shape the scientific study of pidgin and creole languages throughout much of the twentieth century. Reinecke was both a social reformer and a leading sociolinguistic researcher working with creole languages and societies that derive from diverse groups of people thrown into close social contact. Most notably, Reinecke's keen sense of social justice has had a telling effect on the social history of Hawaii. Along with his persistent efforts to obtain a fair and equal share for wage earners in sharply stratified societies, his attention early became focused on their language. By encouraging others to study what he called "marginal languages," he was able to bring to them (and to the extraordinary issues—theoretical and practical—which they raise) a measure of prestige, both in the eyes of their speakers and in the increased attention accorded them by students of language and society. The book presents a description of Reinecke's life and work, the text of his own last paper on creolistics, and seventeen papers which reflect the range and vitality of the field that he did so much to open. Some of the papers reflect the issue which has come to dominate creole studies—the debate over the role of universals and of specific substrata as competing explanations of the amazing similarities that creoles, and perhaps pidgins also, exhibit across the world. Many describe the intense language contact within which language contraction and expansion occur (they do this either directly, or by supplying new data which will eventually feed such descriptions), and and some are our belated response to calls which Reinecke made in the 1930s. Fifty years ago, he saw the need for the kind of comparative studies which are only now under way—in, for example, Hazel Carter's paper, which represents a pioneering attempt to compare the suprasegmentals of English-based Creoles on both sides of the Atlantic. In his last years, Reinecke strongly supported research on contact languages with non-European lexical bases. He thought this was the area from which future creole studies would derive the greatest theoretical and practical gain, and in this volume six papers answer his call by analyzing such pidgins and creoles.
Author : Pieter Muysken
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111392844
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
Author : Nessa Wolfson,Joan Manes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110857320
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Author : Maria Braun
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783484305175
This book explores a relatively little investigated area of creole languages, word-formation. It provides the most comprehensive account so far of the word-formation patterns of an English-based creole language, Sranan, as found in its earliest sources, and compares them with the patterns attested in the input languages. One of the few studies of creole morphology based on historical data, the book discusses the theoretical problems arising with the historical analysis of creole word-formation and provides an analysis along the lines of Booij's (2005, 2007) Construction Morphology in which the assumed boundaries between affixation, compounding and syntactic constructions play a very minor role. It shows that Early Sranan word-formation is characterised by the absence of superstrate derivational affixes, the use of free morphemes as derivational markers and of compounding as the major word-formation strategy. The emergence of Early Sranan word-formation involved multiple sources (the input languages, universals, language-internal development) and different mechanisms (reanalysis of free morphemes as derivational markers, adaptation of superstrate complex words, transfer from the substrates and the creation of innovations). The findings render untenable theoretical accounts of creole genesis based on one explanatory factor, such as superstrate or substrate influence.
Author : Peter Mühlhäusler,Thomas E. Dutton,Suzanne Romaine
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295903
Tok Pisin is one of the most important languages of Melanesia and is used in a wide range of public and private functions in Papua New Guinea. The language has featured prominently in Pidgin and Creole linguistics and has featured in a number of debates in theoretical linguistics. With their extensive fieldwork experience and vast knowledge of the archives relating to Papua New Guinea, Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas E. Dutton and Suzanne Romaine compiled this Tok Pisin text collection. It brings together representative samples of the largest Pidgin language of the Pacific area. These texts represent about 150 years of development of this language and will be an invaluable resource for researchers, language policy makers and individuals interested in the history of Papua New Guinea.
Author : Jean Aitchison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107023628
How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of progress or decay. This book will show you why it is neither, and that understanding the factors surrounding how language change occurs is essential to understanding why it happens. This updated edition remains non-technical and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics.
Author : John W. M. Verhaar
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789027230232
The First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia was planned mainly for Tok Pisin, but no predetermined theme(s) had been proposed to the participants. Nevertheless, in this collection of papers several principal themes stand out.One is that of a revived interest in substratology, both for Tok Pisin and for Bislama. Another is what in fact amounts to a change in perspective from universalism, as supposedly competitive with the substratological orientation, towards a generalist approach to typology, which reduces the apparent polarity, from a theoretical point of view. A third is the pervasive interest of contributors in wider language issues in the social and political life of Papua New Guinea.These interests go back to the linguistic and social experience of the participants, most of whom have a long record of living among the people whose languages they have studied on a day-to-day basis, and to the relative remoteness of their inspiration from the more theoretical and perhaps ultimately untestable issues which surround the universalist approach and its claims for a bioprogram foundation for language.
Author : Kate Burridge,Bernd Kortmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110208412
This volume gives a detailed overview of the varieties of English spoken in the Pacific and Australasia, including regional, social and ethnic dicalects (such as New Zealand, Australian Vernacular, or Maori English) as well as pidgins and creoles (such as Tok Pisin, Hawaii Creole, or Kriol in Australia). The chapters, written by widely acclaimed specialists, provide concise and comprehensive information on the phonological, morphological and syntactic characteristics of each variety discussed. The articles are followed by exercises and study questions. The exercises are geared towards students and can be used for classroom assignments as well as for self study in preparation for exams. Instructors can use the exercises, sound samples and interactive maps to enhance their classroom presentations and to highlight important language features.