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  • Nigerian Pidginby Nick Faraclas

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 350.00

    This is the first comprehensive grammar of Nigerian Pidgin. This book provides basic descriptive and analytical treatment of the syntax, morphology and phonology of a language which may soon become the most widely spoken in all of Africa. more...

  • Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammarby Claire Lefebvre

    Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 54.00

    An examination of creole genesis, showing how mechanisms from source languages show themselves in creole. more...

  • La linguistique en cour de justiceby Claude Tousignant

    Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 1990; US$ 18.75

    Cet ouvrage intéressera le spécialiste en droit criminel ou civil, en notariat ou en criminologie à l'affût des plus récentes technologies d'élucidation de litiges juridiques; il suscitera également de l'intérêt chez le spécialiste de la langue, de la linguistique et de la sociolinguistique... more...

  • Tok Pisin Textsby Peter Mühlhäusler; Thomas E. Dutton; Suzanne Romaine

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2003; US$ 173.00

    Tok Pisin is one of the most important languages of Melanesia and is used in a wide range of public and private functions in Papua New Guinea. The language has featured prominently in Pidgin and Creole linguistics and has featured in a number of debates in theoretical linguistics. With their extensive fieldwork experience and vast knowledge of the... more...

  • John Wilkins and 17th-Century British Linguisticsby Joseph L. Subbiondo

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1992; US$ 188.00

    In this reader, 19 articles have been collected that bring out the central position of John Wilkins and his Essay Toward a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668) in the history of ideas in 17th-century Britain. more...

  • Pidgins and Creolesby Professor Loreto Todd; Loreto Todd

    Taylor and Francis 1990; US$ 43.95

    The focus of this study is upon those pidgins and creoles which are English based and which have arisen since the fifteenth century. The book examines the widespread nature of the pidgin/creole phenomenon and evaluates the current definitions of the terms and the theories which have been advanced to account for their existence. The author considers... more...

  • An Introduction to Pidgins and Creolesby John Holm; S. R. Anderson; J. Bresnan; B. Comrie; W. Dressler; C. J. Ewen

    Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 43.00

    This textbook is a clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being. Starting with an overview of the field's basic concepts, it surveys the new languages that developed as a result of the European expansion to the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. more...

  • Creating Context in Andean Culturesby Rosaleen Howard-Malverde

    Oxford University Press 1996; US$ 56.99

    This collection of papers explores various indigenous Andean languages and cultures in the context of new anthropological thinking about "texts" and textuality. The contributors focus on the ways socially subordinated cultural groups construct distinctive historical identities. more...

  • The Mixed Language Debateby Peter Bakker; Yaron Matras

    De Gruyter 2003; US$ 182.00

    Mixed Languages are speech varieties that arise in bilingual settings, often as markers of ethnic separateness. They combine structures inherited from different parent languages, often resulting in odd and unique splits that present a challenge to theories of contact-induced change as well as genetic classification. This collection of articles is devoted... more...

  • The Linearization of Affixesby Rachel Wojdak

    Springer 2007; US$ 54.99

    The linearization of syntactic constructs stands at the forefront of current research on the syntax-phonology interface. This book examines the problem of linearization from a new perspective: that of the linearization of affixes. The driving proposal of this book is that affixation provides a means of satisfying the universal requirement that linguistic... more...