The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars: Language Contact and Change

ISBN-13: 9780521150224 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 364 str.

Enoch Olade Aboh

Opis

This account of language acquisition in a multilingual context explains how hybrid grammars develop and can result in language change.

Recenzje

'… this book's central ideas should be enthusiastically received by the contact linguistics community, and are likely to be both implemented and elaborated upon with rewarding results … the author brings detailed understanding and penetrating analysis … I believe readers concerned with the question of how contact languages come to be will find this volume rewards a close reading, and will come away with numerous ideas for their own research …' David Douglas Robertson, LINGUIST List

Spis treści

Foreword Salikoko S. Mufwene; 1. Introduction; 2. The agents of creole formation: geopolitics and cultural aspects of the Slave Coast; 3. The emergence of creoles: a review of some current hypotheses; 4. Competition and selection; 5. The role of vulnerable interfaces in language change: the case of the D-system; 6. The emergence of the clause left periphery; 7. The emergence of serial verb constructions; 8. Conclusions: some final remarks on hybrid grammars, the creole prototype, and language acquisition and change.