Synchronic and diachronic perspectives on contact languages /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2007.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 370 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:Creole language library, 0920-9026 ; v. 32
Creole language library ; v. 32.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11220363
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Other authors / contributors:Huber, Magnus.
Velupillai, Viveka, 1974-
ISBN:9789027292018
9027292019
1282152661
9781282152663
9786612152665
6612152664
9789027252548
9027252548
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:This collection of selected conference papers from three SPCL meetings brings together a cross-fertilization of approaches to the study of contact languages. The articles are grouped into three coherent sections dealing with, respectively, phonetics and phonology, including Optimality Theory; synchronic analyses of both morphology and syntax; and diachronic tracings of language change, with special focus on sound patterns as well as semantics. An added value of the volume is that most of the articles are in various ways significant for more than one linguistic subgrouping, and there is a signi.
Other form:Print version: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives on contact languages. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2007