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Textbook Of Clinical Neurology

by B. Jacobs, C.O. Martins Jarnalo, J.B.M. Kuks e J.W. Snoek

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 This textbook is designed for use in medical and paramedical training and is also suitable for programmes in nursing, human movement sciences, and medical biology.
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Language Contact In Africa And The African Diaspora In The Americas - In Honor Of John V. Singler

116,60€ + 10% CARD

 Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas brings together the original research of nineteen leading scholars on language contact and pidgin/creole genesis. In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to the role of historical, cultural and demographic factors in language contact situations. John Victor Singler's body of work, a model of what such a research paradigm should look like, strikes a careful balance between sociohistorical and linguistic analysis. The case studies in this volume present investigations into the sociohistorical matrix of language contact and critical insights into the sociolinguistic consequences of language contact within Africa and the African Diaspora. Additionally, they contribute to ongoing debates about pidgin/creole genesis and language contact by examining and comparing analyses and linguistic outcomes of particular sociohistorical and cultural contexts, and considering less-studied factors such as speaker agency and identity in the emergence, nativization, and stabilization of contact varieties.
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Language And Slavery - A Social And Linguistic History Of The Suriname Creoles

by Arends Jacques Arends

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 This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little known historical texts, the author points out the relevance of European settlements prior to colonization by the English in 1651 and concludes that the formation of the Surinamese creoles goes back further than generally assumed. He provides an all-encompassing sociolinguistic overview of the colony up to the mid-19th century and shows how ethnicity, language attitude, religion and location had an effect on which languages were spoken by whom. The author discusses creole data gleaned from the earliest sources and interprets the attested variation. The book is completed by annotated textual data, both oral and written and representing different genres and stages of the Surinamese creoles. It will be of interest to linguists, historians, anthropologists, literary scholars and anyone interested in Suriname.
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Afro-Peruvian Spanish - Spanish Slavery And The Legacy Of Spanish Creoles

by Sessarego Sandro Sessarego

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 The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the genesis of Spanish creoles in the Americas in a broader sense. In order to provide a more concrete answer to the questions raised by McWhorter’s book on The Missing Spanish Creoles, the current study has focused on an aspect of the European colonial enterprise in the Americas that has never been closely analyzed in relation to the evolution of Afro-European contact varieties, the legal regulations of black slavery. This book proposes the ''Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis'', which ascribes a prime importance in the development of Afro-European languages in the Americas to the historical evolution of slavery, from the legal rules contained in the Roman Corpus Juris Civilis to the codes and regulations implemented in the different European colonies overseas. This research was carried out with the belief that creole studies will benefit greatly from a more interdisciplinary approach, capable of combining linguistic, socio-historical, legal, and anthropological insights. This study is meant to represent an eclectic step in such a direction.
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Functional Categories In Three Atlantic Creoles - Saramaccan, Haitian And Papiamentu

by Lefebvre Claire Lefebvre

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 This book is about the functional categories of three Caribbean creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian Creole and Papiamentu with two specific goals. The first one is to evaluate the respective contribution of the source languages to the functional categories of these three creoles. The second is to evaluate the degree of similarity/dissimilarity of the functional categories across these creoles. This study is cast within the relabeling-based account of creole genesis. Several lexical items discussed in this book may fulfill more than one grammatical function thus raising the issue of multifuctionality. No such in-depth comparative work of these three creoles with their source languages and of the three creoles among themselves is available elsewhere in the literature. This book is addressed to linguists (including Master and PhD students) interested in syntactic categories and more specifically in functional categories, to creolists and to researchers interested in language contact.
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Jamaican Creole Goes Web - Sociolinguistic Styling And Authenticity In A Digital ''Yaad''

by Moll Andrea Moll

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 Large-scale migration after WWII and the prominence of Jamaican Creole in the media have promoted its use all around the globe. Deterritorialisation has entailed the contact-induced transformation of Jamaican Creole in diaspora communities and its adoption by ‘crossers’. Taking sociolinguistic globalisation yet a step further, this monograph investigates the use of Jamaican Creole in a web discussion forum by combining quantitative and qualitative methodology in a sociolinguistic ‘third wave’ approach. In the absence of standardised orthography, one of the central aims of this study is to document the sociolinguistic styling and grassroots (anti-) standardisation of spelling norms for Jamaican Creole in the web forum as a virtual community of practice. An analysis of individual repertoire portraits demonstrates that conventionalised spelling variants co-occur with basilectal Jamaican Creole morphosyntax in ‘Cyber-Jamaican’ as the digital ethnolinguistic repertoire of the discussion forum. The enregisterment of this ethnolinguistic repertoire is closely tied to staged performance, which establishes the link between ‘Cyber-Jamaican’ and the negotiation of sociolinguistic identity and authenticity via stance-taking.
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Pidgins, Creoles And Mixed Languages - An Introduction

by Viveka (Justus Liebig University Giessen) Velupillai

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 This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics. Part I presents the theoretical background, with chapters devoted to the definition of terms, the sociohistorical settings, theories on the genesis of pidgins and creoles, as well as discussions on language variation and the sociology of language. Part II empirically tests assumptions made about the linguistic characteristics of pidgins and creoles by systematically comparing them with other natural languages in all linguistic domains. This is the first introduction that consistently applies the findings of the<i> Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures</i> and systematically includes extended pidgins and mixed languages in the discussion of each linguistic feature. The book is designed for students of courses with a focus on pidgins, creoles and mixed languages, as well as typologically oriented courses on contact linguistics.
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Pidgins And Creoles Beyond Africa-Europe Encounters

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 Most of what we know about pidgin and creole languages is the result of research into contact languages that developed as a consequence of European expansion into Africa and the Caribbean. This volume aims to give a platform to research on the history, genesis, and typology of a number of non-European language-based contact languages.
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Ibero-Asian Creoles - Comparative Perspectives

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 Starting in 1498, contact between Ibero-Romance and Asian languages has taken place along a stretch of coastlines of continental and insular Asia, producing a string of contact varieties which are among least visible in field of Creole Studies, this book brings together comparative studies on various issues across the Ibero-Asian creoles.
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Agency In The Emergence Of Creole Languages - The Role Of Women, Renegades, And People Of African And Indigenous Descent In The Emergence Of The Colonial Era Creoles

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 Suitable for those who are looking for fresh perspectives on the process of creolization of language, this book demonstrates how enterprising women, rebellious slaves, insubordinate sailors, and a host of other renegades and maroons had a major impact on the creolized societies, cultures, and languages of the colonial era Atlantic and Pacific.
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Roots Of Afrikaans - Selected Writings Of Hans Den Besten

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 Hans den Besten (1948-2010) made numerous contributions to Afrikaans linguistics over a period of nearly three decades. This book contains a selection of Den Besten's important papers - some of which originally appeared in less accessible journals - concerning the structure and history of Afrikaans.
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Morphosyntax Of Reiteration In Creole And Non-Creole Languages

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 Contributes to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. Alongside five chapters on creole languages (Surinam creole, Haitian, Mauritian, Sao Tome and Pitchi), this volume brings counter-evidence to the claim that reiteration phenomena are particularly typical of creoles.
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Phonological Variation In Rural Jamaican Schools

by Lacoste Veronique Lacoste

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 Investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language variety in rural Jamaica. This title looks into phonological and phonetic variation observed in primary school in Jamaica.
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Defective Copy Theory Of Movement - Evidence From Wh-Constructions In Cape Verdean Creole

by Alexandre Nelia Alexandre

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 Within the framework of Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Theory and the Minimalist Program, this work presents a detailed discussion of the different types of wh-question formation and relativization strategies in Cape Verdean Creole (Santiago variety), especially focusing on wh-movement of PPs.
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Making Of A Mixed Language - The Case Of Ma'A/Mbugu

by Mous Maarten Mous

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 The Mbugu (or Ma'a) language (Tanzania) is one of the few genuine mixed languages, reputedly combining Bantu grammar with Cushitic vocabulary. In fact the people speak two languages: one mixed and one closely related to the Bantu language Pare. This book is the first comprehensive description of these languages. It shows that these two languages share one grammar while their lexicon is parallel. In the distant past the people shifted from a Cushitic to a Bantu language and in the process rebuilt a language of their own that expresses their separate ethnic identity in a Bantu environment. This linguistic history is explained in the context of the intricate history of the people. The discussion of the processes that were involved in the formation of Ma'a/Mbugu is extremely relevant for both creole studies and for contact linguistics in general.
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Degrees Of Restructuring In Creole Languages

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 This title deals with creolization, looking at case studies which are English-based and Romance-based. It incorporates theories of creolization, aiming to encompass a wide range of concepts in creole languages.
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Structure And Status Of Pidgins And Creoles - Including Selected Papers From Meetings Of The Society For Pidgin And Creole Linguistics

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 This collection of papers on the pidgin and creole languages covers such topics as: typology of contact languages; Saramaccan creole origins; the verb phrase in Afrikaans as evidence of creolization; Eskimo pidgins; and tense-aspect-mood in Principense.
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Creole And Dialect Continua - Standard Acquisition Processes In Belize And China (Prc)

by Escure Genevieve Escure

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 This work examines the unguided acquisition of a standard language by speakers of nonstandard varieties in two distinct linguistic and geographical situations: in a Caribbean creole situation (Belize); and in a non-creole situation (PRC) in China.
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Contact Languages - A Wider Perspective

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 Presenting linguistic and historical sketches of lesser-known contact languages, this work aims to contribute to a more balanced view of the most dramatic results of language contact. The 12 case studies offer testimony against the view that all contact languages are pidgins and creoles.
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Genesis Of A Language - The Formation And Development Of Korlai Portuguese

by Clements J. Clancy Clements

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 This volume provides a treatment of the formation, linguistic components, and rapidly changing situation of Korlai Portuguese, a Portuguese-based Creole only recently discovered by linguists.
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Early Stages Of Creolization

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 Brings together studies on the early stages of Creolization which are based on historical data: early documents written in Creole languages (Negerhollands, Sranan, Bajan) and demographic/socio-historical evidence on relevant former colonies (Surinam, Haiti, Martinique).
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Kriyol Syntax - The Portuguese-Based Creole Language Of Guinea-Bissau

by Kihm Alain Kihm

133,83€ + 10% CARD

 Part of a series which presents descriptive and theoretical studies of pidgin and creole languages, this volume focuses on the history and syntax of Kriyol.
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Focus And Grammatical Relations In Creole Languages - Papers From The University Of Chicago Conference On Focus And Grammatical Relations In Creole Languages

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 This linguistic study looks at focus and grammatical relations in Creole languages. Topics covered include: verb focus, predicate clefting and predicate doubling; focus and anti-focus; focus and pronominals; discourse patterning; and grammatical relations.
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Predication In Caribbean English Creoles

by Winford Donald Winford

144,43€ + 10% CARD

 A collection of essays on predication in Caribbean English Creoles, this work covers the verb complex, auxiliary ordering, transitivity, copular and attributive predication, serial verb constructions and complementation.
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