30.3039, Books: The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars: Aboh

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Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 15:57:05
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars: Aboh

 


Title: The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars 
Subtitle: Language Contact and Change 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/emergence-hybrid-grammars-language-contact-and-change?format=PB 


Author: Enoch Oladé Aboh

Paperback: ISBN:  9780521150224 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 39.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521150224 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521150224 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 30.33


Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

Children are extremely gifted in acquiring their native languages, but
languages nevertheless change over time. Why does this paradox exist? In this
study of creole languages, Enoch Oladé Aboh addresses this question, arguing
that language acquisition requires contact between different linguistic
sub-systems that feed into the hybrid grammars that learners develop. There is
no qualitative difference between a child learning their language in a
multilingual environment and a child raised in a monolingual environment. In
both situations, children learn to master multiple linguistic sub-systems that
are in contact and may be combined to produce new variants. These new variants
are part of the inputs for subsequent learners. Contributing to the debate on
language acquisition and change, Aboh shows that language learning is always
imperfect: learners' motivation is not to replicate the target language
faithfully but to develop a system close enough to the target that guarantees
successful communication and group membership.
   

Foreword Salikoko S. Mufwene; 1. Introduction; 2. The agents of creole
formation: geopolitics and cultural aspects of the Slave Coast; 3. The
emergence of creoles: a review of some current hypotheses; 4. Competition and
selection; 5. The role of vulnerable interfaces in language change: the case
of the D-system; 6. The emergence of the clause left periphery; 7. The
emergence of serial verb constructions; 8. Conclusions: some final remarks on
hybrid grammars, the creole prototype, and language acquisition and change.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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