Produktbild
William Jennings

Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language

Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole

Buch

This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the authors employ this dual methodology to reconstruct how multilingual individuals drew on their perception of Romance and West African languages to form French Guianese Creole. In doing so, they facilitate the application of a usage-based approach to language while simultaneously contributing significantly to the debate on creole origins. This innovative volume is sure to appeal to students and scholars of language history, creolisation and languages… Mehr

CHF 130.00

Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)

Versandfertig innerhalb 1-3 Werktagen

Produktdetails


Weitere Autoren: Pfänder, Stefan
  • ISBN: 978-3-319-61951-4
  • EAN: 9783319619514
  • Produktnummer: 23063347
  • Verlag: Springer Nature EN
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm 462 g
  • Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
  • Gewicht: 462
  • Sonstiges: Research

Über den Autor


William Jennings is Senior Lecturer in French language, linguistics and culture at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research interests lie primarily within French colonial and encounter history, with a particular focus on the emergence of creole languages and societies. Stefan Pfänder is Full Professor of Romance linguistics at Albert-Ludwigs-Universitäts Freiburg, Germany. His teaching focuses on French, Spanish, Italian and Creole, while his research centres around the emergence of grammatical constructions in interaction, and usage-based models of language variation and change.

37 weitere Werke von William Jennings:


Bewertungen


0 von 0 Bewertungen

Geben Sie eine Bewertung ab!

Teilen Sie Ihre Erfahrungen mit dem Produkt mit anderen Kunden.