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Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language

Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole

Paperback Engels 2019 9783319871974
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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 in contact.
Chapter 3 is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

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ISBN13:9783319871974
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Uitgever:Springer International Publishing
Thema:
2AD Romaanse, Italiaanse en Rhaeto-Romaanse talen
2ADF Frans
2H Afrikaanse talen
2ZP Pidgin en Creoolse talen

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