Creoles Their Substrates And Language Typology Claire Lefebvre Ed by Claire Lefebvre (ed.) 9789027287434, 9027287430 instant download after payment.

Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For example, creole languages typologically pair with their superstrate languages (Chaudenson 2003), with their substrate languages (Lefebvre 1998), or even, creole languages are alike (Bickerton 1984) such that they constitute a "definable typological class" (McWhorter 1998). This book contains 25 chapter.
Content: Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; The problem of the typological classification of creoles; Creoles spoken in Africa and in the Caribbean; Èdó influence on Santome; A Wolof trace in the verbal system of the Portuguese Creole of Santiago Island (Cape Verde); Substrate influences in Kriyol; One substrate, two creoles; Substrate features in the properties of verbs in three Atlantic creoles; Assessing the nature and role of substrate influence in the formation and development of the creoles of Suriname
Abstract: Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. This book contains chapters bearing on detailed comparisons of some 30 creoles and their substrate languages.