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Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 240.00This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly argue for controversial positions. The papers demonstrate... more...
Motion, Transfer and Transformation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 165.00Typologies are critical tools for linguists, but typologies, like grammars, are known to leak. This book addresses the question of typological overlap from the perspective of a single language. In Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca, a language of southern Mexico, change events are expressed with three types of predicates, and each predicate type corresponds... more...
Variation in the Caribbean
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 149.00The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics as an academic field. It has yielded influential theory, such as the (post-)creole continuum or the 'Acts of Identity' models, that has shaped sociolinguistics far beyond creole settings. This volume collects current work in the field... more...
Athabaskan Prosody
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 195.00This collection of articles on stress and tone in various Athabaskan languages will interest theoretical linguists and historically oriented linguists alike. The volume brings to light new data on the phonetics and/or phonology of prosody (stress, tone, intonation) in various Athabaskan languages, Chiricahua Apache, Dene Soun'liné, Jicarilla Apache,... more...
"And he knew our language"
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 158.00This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible... more...
A Grammar of Creek (Muskogee)
University of Nebraska Press 2011; US$ 75.00A sourcebook of grammatical constructions in the Creek (Muskogee) language. more...
The Grammar of Possession
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1996; US$ 179.00The Grammar of Possession: Inalienability, incorporation and possessor ascension in Guaraní , is an exhaustive study of linguistic structures in Paraguayan Guaraní which are directly or indirectly associated with the semantic domain of inalienability. Constructions analyzed in the book include adnominal and predicative possessive constructions,... more...
Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 149.00The 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... more...
The Acquisition of Mauritian Creole
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1994; US$ 143.00This work is based on an investigation of language acquisition process, particularly in regard to syntax, among Mauritian children learning to speak Mauritian Creole as their first language. As such, it is the first major study of the development of child grammar in a Creole context. Mauritian Creole, in common with many Creole languages, emerged under... more...
Kwéyòl in Postcolonial Saint Lucia
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 165.00Can historically marginalized, threatened languages be saved in the contemporary global era? In relation to the wider postcolonial world, especially the Caribbean, this book focuses on efforts to preserve and promote Lesser Antillean French Creole ? Kwéyòl ? as the national language of Saint Lucia and on the legacy of colonialism and impact of globalization,... more...









