ISBN10: 9027252394, ISBN13: 9789027252395, [publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company] Hardcover Creole Language Library. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:9027252394
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1997]

John Benjamins, Date: 1997. Hardcover. New. 519 pages. 1997. John Benjamins ISBN 9027252394 9789027252395 [GB]

John Benjamins Publishing Co 1997 Hard cover Good No Dust Jacket.

ISBN10: 9027252394, ISBN13: 9789027252395, [publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company] Hardcover No Dust Jacket
[Skokie, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]

EB John Benjamins Publishing Company 1997 Hardcover Very Good Hardcover. 8vo. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 1997. Xi, 506 pgs. Creole Language Library. Bound in illustrated paper covered boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This book contributes to a more balanced view of the most dramatic results of language contact by presenting linguistic and historical sketches of lesser-known contact languages. The twelve case studies offer eloquent testimony against the still common view that all contact languages are pidgins and creoles with maximally simple and essentially identical grammars. They show that some contact languages are neither pidgins nor creoles, and that even pidgins and creoles can display considerable structural diversity and structural complexity; they also show that two-language contact situations can give rise to pidgins, especially when access to a target language is withheld by its speakers. The chapters are arranged according to language type: three focus on pidgins (Hiri Motu, by Tom Dutton; Pidgin Delaware, by Ives Goddard; and Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin, by George L. Huttar and Frank J. Velantie), two on creoles (Kituba, by Salikoko S. Mufwene, and Sango, by Helma Pasch), one on a set of pidgins and creoles (Arabic-based contact languages, by Jonathan Owens), on ...

ISBN10: 9027252394, ISBN13: 9789027252395, [publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, EB] Hardcover Hardcover. 8vo. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 1997. Xi, 506 pgs. Creole Language Library. Bound in illustrated paper covered boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This book contributes to a more balanced view of the most dramatic results of language contact by presenting linguistic and historical sketches of lesser-known contact languages. The twelve case studies offer eloquent testimony against the still common view that all contact languages are pidgins and creoles with maximally simple and essentially identical grammars. They show that some contact languages are neither pidgins nor creoles, and that even pidgins and creoles can display considerable structural diversity and structural complexity; they also show that two-language contact situations can give rise to pidgins, especially when access to a target language is withheld by its speakers. The chapters are arranged according to language type: three focus on pidgins (Hiri Motu, by Tom Dutton; Pidgin Delaware, by Ives Goddard; and Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin, by George L. Huttar and Frank J. Velantie) , two on creoles (Kituba, by Salikoko S. Mufwene, and Sango, by Helma Pasch) , one on a set of pidgins and creoles (Arab ...