Search results for “[Subject: creole-languages]”

• Author(s): Philipp Kramer | Katrin Mutz | Peter Stein • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & Comparative

• Author(s): John McWhorter • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeSaramaccan has been central to various debates regarding the origin and nature of creole language...

• Author(s): Peter Stein • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeAls die erste Auflage dieses Arbeitsheftes erschien, standen die Kreolsprachen noch am Rand des ling...

• Author(s): Pieter C. Muysken • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis book is about the close historical and linguistic relationship between the languages of S...

• Author(s): Peter Bakker • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and m...

• Author(s): Stephen C. Levinson • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guin...

• Author(s): Patience Epps | Lev Michael • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - General

• Author(s): Lourens De Vries • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis book is a comprehensive and authoritative description of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan...

• Author(s): Patience Epps | Lev Michael • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - General

• Author(s): Stefan Engelberg • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe relationship between language and colonialism is increasingly focussed in linguistic research in the German-spea...

• Author(s): Bill Palmer • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - General

• Author(s): Laura McPherson • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralSeenku is a Western Mande language of the Samogo group spoken in southwestern Burkina Faso by approximately 17,000 sp...

• Author(s): Martin Haspelmath | Ekkehard Konig | Wulf Oesterreicher • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - General

• Author(s): Chelsea McCracken • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis reference grammar provides a full grammatical description of the previously-undocumented Austronesian language...

• Author(s): Maria Iliescu | Eugeen Roegiest • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - General

• Author(s): John Humbley | Gerhard Budin | Christer Lauren • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - General

• Author(s): Osvaldo Jaeggli • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Romance Languages (Other)

• Author(s): Ofelia Garcia • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book will be of special interest to the general reader concerned with the issue of language in the United States, ...

• Author(s): Desmond C. Derbyshire | Geoffrey K. Pullum • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - General

• Author(s): Chiara Gianollo • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeBringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal s...

• Author(s): Gerrit J. Dimmendaal • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to...

• Author(s): N. J. Enfield • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics ...

• Author(s): Maria Mazzoli • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeFrom the Back CoverThis volume examines the current state of the theoretical and empirical debate ...

• Author(s): Alice Vittrant • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - General This book lies at the crossroads of areal typology, language contact and genetic affiliation. Concerned with mainland...

• Author(s): Hans Henrich Hock • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhy does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why ...

• Author(s): No Contributor • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book is an innovative contribution to contact linguistics as it presents a rarely studied but sizeable d...

• Author(s): M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralInformation structure and the organization of oral texts have been rarely studied crosslinguistically. ...

• Author(s): Patrick Heinrich • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: JapaneseThe UNESCO atlas on endangered languages recognizes the Ryukyuan languages as constituting languages in their own right. This rep...

• Author(s): No Contributor • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThe field of South Asian linguistics has undergone considerable growth and advancement in recent yea...

• Author(s): Philip Baldi • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: LatinThis volume provides an up-to-date account of the linguistic evolution of Latin, from its origins in the Proto-Indo-European ancestral l...

• Author(s): Joseph Greenberg • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - General"Greenberg's survey of the earlier history of typology is without rivals, a must read for every linguist who is curi...

• Author(s): Benjamin Hary • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book offers sociological and structural descriptions of language varieties used in over 2 dozen Jewish communities...

• Author(s): Bert Weltens • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - General

• Author(s): Sergio Lubello • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - General

• Author(s): Ana Maria Martins | Ernestina Carrilho • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - General

• Author(s): David Jowitt • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAlthough the past few decades have witnessed growing interest in varieties of English around the world, no study of the ...