Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language: Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole

By: William Jennings and Stefan Pfänder

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783319619521
Related ISBNs:: 9783319619514
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 01/19/18
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Language Arts, Foreign Language Study, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.