25.578, Books: Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters: Buchstaller, Holmberg, Almoaily (Eds)

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From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters: Buchstaller, Holmberg, Almoaily (Eds)

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Title: Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters 
Series Title: Creole Language Library 47  

Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/cll.47 


Editor: Isabelle Buchstaller
Editor: Anders Holmberg
Editor: Mohammad Almoaily

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Abstract:

Most of what we know about pidgin and creole languages is the result of
research into contact languages that developed as a consequence of European
expansion into Africa and the Caribbean. The narrow focus on European lexifier
and West African substrate languages has resulted in insufficient
investigation of other contact varieties. Even more perniciously, lesser known
and often under-described contact languages have not been taken into
consideration when formulating supposedly general tendencies about the
linguistic properties of contact languages. This volume aims to give a
platform to research on the history, genesis, and typology of a number of
non-European language-based contact languages. A more encompassing and diverse
data-base will contribute to more accurate and comprehensive inventories of
the typological features of contact languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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