Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar

Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar
Title Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar PDF eBook
Author Claire Lefebvre
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 481
Release 1998
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 0521593824

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An examination of creole genesis, showing how mechanisms from source languages show themselves in creole.

L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis

L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis
Title L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis PDF eBook
Author Claire Lefebvre
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 449
Release 2006-01-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027253021

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In this volume, second language (L2) acquisition researchers and creolists engage in a dialogue, focusing on processes at work in L2 acquisition and creole genesis. The volume opens with an overview of the relationship between L2 acquisition and pidgins/creoles (Siegel). The first group of papers addresses current language contact at a societal or an individual level (Smith; Terrill and Dunn; Bruhn de Garavito and Atoche; Liceras et al.; Muller). The second section focuses on processes characterizing various stages of L2 acquisition and creole genesis: relexification and transfer from the L1 and their role in the initial state (Sprouse; Schwartz; Kouwenberg; Aboh; Ionin). Chapters in the third section discuss processes involved in developing grammars, namely, reanalysis and restructuring (Sanchez; Brousseau and Nikiema; Steele and Brousseau). The final section concentrates on fossilization and the end state (Cornips and Hulk; Montrul; Lardiere). Between them, the chapters cover lexical, morphological, phonological, semantic and syntactic properties of interlanguage grammars and creole grammars.

Relabeling in Language Genesis

Relabeling in Language Genesis
Title Relabeling in Language Genesis PDF eBook
Author Claire Lefebvre
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 323
Release 2015
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 0199945314

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In this book, Claire Lefebrve offers a coherent picture of research on relabeling over the last 15 years, and replies to the questions that have been directed at the relabeling-based theory of creole genesis presented in Lefebvre (1998) and related work.

The Creole Debate

The Creole Debate
Title The Creole Debate PDF eBook
Author John H. McWhorter
Publisher
Pages 181
Release 2018-05-17
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 1108428649

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A compelling argument for why creoles are their own unique entity, which have developed independently of other processes of language development and change.

An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles

An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles
Title An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles PDF eBook
Author John Holm
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 308
Release 2000
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780521585811

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A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.

The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies

The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies
Title The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies PDF eBook
Author Silvia Kouwenberg
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 704
Release 2009-02-11
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1444305999

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Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies. A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language

The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar

The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar
Title The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar PDF eBook
Author Ian G. Roberts
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 673
Release 2017
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0199573778

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This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as Universal Grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages. Part I considers the implications of Universal Grammar for philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language, and examines the history of the theory. Part II focuses on linguistic theory, looking at topics such as explanatory adequacy and how phonology and semantics fit into Universal Grammar. Parts III and IV look respectively at the insights derived from UG-inspired research on language acquisition, and at comparative syntax and language typology, while part V considers the evidence for Universal Grammar in phenomena such as creoles, language pathology, and sign language. The book will be a vital reference for linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists.