Languages in Contact: The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars

ISBN-13: 9780521430517 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 196 str.

John Holm

Opis

Accounting for the structural differences between "non-creole" language varieties (such as African-American English, Afrikaans and Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese) and the European source languages out of which they grew, John Holm argues that these differences resulted from "partial restructuring." Whereas some of the source languages' morphological and syntactic features were retained, a significant number of features from the non-native speakers' languages were also introduced. Holm identifies the linguistic processes leading to partial restructuring, bringing into focus an aspect of contact-induced language change which has previously not been analyzed.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'A comparative approach to creolistics is nothing new, and Holm is a past master at it, but this work, essential reading for all interested in creolistics, is the first classic (and let us hope, by no means the last) of the new field of comparative semi-creolistics.' Language in Society

Spis treści

1. Language contact and partial restructuring; 2. Social factors in partial restructuring; 3. The verb phrase; 4. The noun phrase; 5. The structure of clauses; 6. Conclusions.