text_combined: new books pidgins creoles structure status pidgins creoles including selected papers society pidgin creole linguistics arthur k spears donald winford eds due 1997 ix 436 pp creole language library 19 us canada cloth 1 55619 174 x price us 99 rest world cloth 90 272 5241 6 price hfl 175 john benjamins publishing web site http www benjamins com information via email service benjamins com destined become landmark work book devoted principally reassessment content categories boundaries basic assumptions pidgin creole studies includes revised elaborated papers meetings society pidgin creole linguistics addition commissioned papers leading scholars field group papers undertake reassessment reevaluation pidgin creole terminology contact language typology section one requestioning process evolution pidginization creolization language contact phenomena section two reinterpretation sources genesis grammatical aspects saramaccan atlantic creoles general section three reconsideration status languages defying received definitions pidgins creoles section four analyses aspects grammar shed light issue possible creole grammar section five contents intro structure status pidgins creoles donald winford section one 1 jaargons pidgins creoles koines salikoko mufwene 2 typology contact languages sarah g thomason section two 3 directionality pidginization creolization philip baker 4 mixing leveling pidgin creole development jeff siegel 5 matrix language recognition morpheme sorting possible structural strategies pidgin creole formation carol myers scotton 6 creolization pidgin morphophonology william j samarin section three 7 saramaccan creole origins portuguese derived lexical correspondences relexification hypothesis michael aceto 8 lost transmission case independent emergence copula atlantic creoles john h mcwhorter section four 9 creole like features verb system afro brazilian variety portuguese alan n baxter 10 verb phrase afrikaans evidence creolization christa de kleine 11 shaba swahili partial creolization due second language learning substrate pressure vincent de rooij 12 status isicarntho nguni based urban variety soweto g tucker childs section five 13 new light eskimo pidgins hein van der voort 14 reduplication ndyuka mary l huttar george l huttar 15 tense aspectmood principense philippe maurer genesis language formation development korlai portuguese clancy j clements 1996 xviii 282 pp creole language library 16 us canada cloth 1 55619 171 5 price 79 00 rest world cloth 90 272 5238 6 price hfl 140 john benjamins publishing web site http www benjamins com information via email service benjamins com korlai portuguese kp portuguese based creole recently discovered linguists originated around 1520 west coast india initially isolated hindu muslim neighbors social religious barriers small korlai community lost virtually portuguese contact well 1740 volume firstever comprehensive treatment formation linguistic components rapidly changing situation exotic creole product ten years research korlai creole portuguese provides exciting indepth diachronic look language showing strain intense cultural pressure surrounding marathi speaking population framed thomason kaufman 1988 model contactinduced language change author analysis enriched numerous comparisons sister creoles apart medieval portuguese marathi book contrastively examines following areas phonemic inventories phonological processes stress assignment syllable structure paradigm restructuring paradigm use lexicon word formation semantic borrowing loan translations grammatical relation marking pre postnominal modification negation subject object deletion embedding word order contact languages wider perspective sarah g thomason ed 1996 xi 487 pp creole language library 17 us canada cloth 1 55619 172 3 price 165 00 rest world cloth 90 272 5239 4 price hfl 275 john benjamins publishing web site http www benjamins com information via email service benjamins com book contributes balanced view dramatic results language contact presenting linguistic historical sketches lesserknown contact languages twelve case studies offer eloquent testimony still common view contact languages pidgins creoles maximally simple essentially identical grammars show contact languages neither pidgins creoles even pidgins creoles display considerable structural diversity structural complexity also show twolanguage contact situations give rise pidgins especially access target language withheld speakers chapters arranged according language type three focus pidgins hiri motu tom dutton pidgin delaware ives goddard ndyuka trio pidgin george l huttar frank j velantie two creoles kituba salikoko mufwene sango helma pasch one set pidgins creoles arabic based contact languages jonathan owens one question early pidginization creolization swahili derek nurse five bilingual mixed languages michif peter bakker robert papen media lengua callahuaya pieter muysken mednyj aleut sarah thomason authors collective goal help offset traditional emphasis within contactlanguage studies pidgins creoles arose immediate result contact europeans starting age exploration accumulation case studies wide diversity languages needed create body knowledge substantial enough support robust generalizations nature development types contact language creole dialect continua standard acquisition processes belize china prc genevieve escure 1997 x 307 pp creole language library 18 us canada cloth 1 55619 173 1 price 89 00 rest world cloth 90 272 5240 8 price hfl 150 john benjamins publishing web site http www benjamins com information via email service benjamins com although substantial amount linguistic research standard language acquisition little attention given mechanisms underlying second dialect acquisition using combination functionbased grammar sociolinguistic methodology analyze topic marking strategies unguided acquisition standard speakers nonstandard varieties examined two distinct linguistic geographical situations caribbean creole situation belize special attention acquisition acrolects native speakers basilects noncreole situation prc documenting acquisition standard chinese putonghua speakers nonstandard varieties represented cultural revolution literature wuhan chinese suzhou wu storytelling style cases psychosocial factors linguistic bias toward nonnative renderings standard varieties social status speakers related political educational consequences play important role development second dialects broadranging analysis single feature oral discourse leads formulation crosslinguistic generalizations acquisition studies results evaluation putative uniqueness creole languages related issues addressed include effect linguistic bias development use language varieties marginalized groups interaction three major language components semantics syntax pragmatics spontaneous communication development methods identify discourse units ultimate goal underlying comparison specific discourse variables belizean chinese standard acquisition evaluate relative merits substratal superstratal universal explanations language development information please email bernadette keck service benjamins com