Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe encounters
By: Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller, Leipzig University ; Anders Holmberg, Newcastle University ; Mohammad Almoaily, King Faisal University
Series: Creole Language Library -- Volume 47
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9789027252708; 9789027270764
Subjects: Pidgin languages; Historical Grammar; Creole dialects; Grammar; Languages in contact; Linguistic change
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Mohammad Almoaily, Anders Holmberg (Newcastle Unviersity) and Isabelle Buchstaller (Leipzig University); title: 1. Ethnohistory of Speaking: Maritime Polynesian Pidgin 1 in a Trilogy of Historical-Sociolinguistic Attestations; title: Emanuel J. Drechsel (University of Hawaii at Manoa); title: 2. The Language of Tobi as presented in Horace Holden's : Narrative: Evidence for Restructuring and Lexical Mixture in a Nuclear Micronesian-based Pidgin / Anthony P. Grant (Edge Hill University); title: 3. Language Variation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic /   Mohammad Almoaily (Newcastle University); title: 4. How Non-Indo-European is Fanakalo Pidgin?: Selected Understudied :   Structures in a Bantu-Lexified Pidgin with Germanic Substrates / Rajend Mesthrie, University of Cape Town.; title: 5. Language Change in a Multiple Contact Setting: The Case of Sarnami (Suriname) / Kofi Yakpo and Pieter Muysken (Radboud University Nijmegen); title: 6. Pidgin Verbs: Infinitives or Imperatives? / Kees Versteegh (University of Nijmegen)