Structure And Variation in Language Contact (Creole Language Library)
Author: Ana Deumert, Stephanie Durrleman
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Publication date: 2006-11-30
ISBN: 9027252513
Number of pages: 376
Format / Quality: rar -> pdf
Size: 4,94 Mb

This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai’i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions reflect – from various perspectives and using different types of data – on the interplay between structure and variation in contact languages, both synchronically and diachronically. The contributors consider a wide range of languages, including Surinamese creoles, Chinook