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Date:  Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:10:46 -0500 (EST)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages: Lefebvre

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Date:  Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:10:46 -0500 (EST)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages: Lefebvre




Title: Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 70

Publication Year: 2004
Publisher:	John Benjamins
		http://www.benjamins.com/
		http://www.benjamins.nl/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS_70

Author: Claire Lefebvre

Hardback: ISBN: 9027230803, Pages: xvi, 358 pp.
	  Price: Europe EURO 99.00

			
Abstract:

The content of this book is concerned with various issues at stake in
Creole studies that are also of interest for general
linguistics. These include the general issue of Creole genesis and of
the accelerated linguistic change that characterizes the emergence of
these languages as compared to ordinary cases of linguistic change,
the problem of the development of morphology in incipient Creoles, the
problem of the validity of data in linguistic analysis, the issue of
multifunctionality as regards the concept of lexical entry, the
question of whether Creole languages are semantically more transparent
than languages not known as Creoles, the issue of whether Creole
languages constitute a typologically identifiable class and the
problem of the interaction between the processes involved in the
emergence and development of Creole languages. The purpose of this
book is to present the major debates that are currently taking place
in the field of Creole studies; evaluate the arguments against data
(mainly drawn from Haitian Creole); and address the issues at stake
within the framework of new paradigms. The various positions on each
issue are summarized on the basis of a thorough review of the
literature.


Table of contents

List of tables  xi
Preface  xiii
List of abbreviations  xv
Introduction  1
The genesis of pidgin and creole languages: A State of the Art  7
The relexification account of creole genesis. The case of Haitian
	Creole 37
What do creole studies have to offer to mainstream linguistics?  125
On data  139
Multifunctionality and the concept of lexical entry  155
On the semantic opacity of creole languages  181
Do creole languages really form a typological class?  207
The interplay of relexification and levelling in creole genesis and
	development 231
The emergence of productive morphology in creole languages: The case
	of Haitian Creole 259
References  309
Appendices  341
Index of authors  349
Index of subjects  355


Lingfield(s):	Historical Linguistics
		Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Haitian Creole French (Language Code: HAT)

		
Written In:	English (Language Code: ENG)


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