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Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 54.00An examination of creole genesis, showing how mechanisms from source languages show themselves in creole. more...
Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 158.00Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For example, creole languages typologically pair with their... 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...
Serial Verbs: Grammatical, Comparative and Cognitive Approaches
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 143.00Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science
Elsevier Science 2005; US$ 225.00Categorization, the basic cognitive process of arranging objects into categories, is a fundamental process in human and machine intelligence and is central to investigations and research in cognitive science. Until now, categorization has been approached from singular disciplinary perspectives with little overlap or communication between the disciplines... more...
A Grammar of Fongbe
De Gruyter 2002; US$ 293.00This book is a reference grammar of Fongbe, a language which is part of the Gbe dialect cluster. It is spoken mainly in the former kingdom of Dahomey, which today comprises the southern areas of Benin and Togo. This book has three objectives: First, its main purpose is to provide a thorough description of the grammar of Fongbe. Second, this book provides... more...
L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 188.00In this volume, second language (L2) acquisition researchers and creolists engage in a dialogue, focusing on processes at work in L2 acquisition and creole genesis. The volume opens with an overview of the relationship between L2 acquisition and pidgins/creoles (Siegel). The first group of papers addresses current language contact at a societal or... more...
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