Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language - Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the authors employ this dual methodology to reconstruct how multilingual individuals drew on their perception of Romance and West African languages to form French Guianese Creole. In doing so, they facilitate the application of a usage-based approach to language while simultaneously contributing significantly to the debate on creole origins. This innovative volume is sure to appeal to students and scholars of language history, creolisation and languages in contact. Chapter 3 is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	William Jennings • Stefan Pfander
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-61951-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General
LSN:	3-319-61951-9
Barcode:	9783319619514

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