Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language: Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole by Jennings, William

Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language: Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319619514)

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Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language: Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole by Jennings, William

Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language: Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole

$99.99

Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language: Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole

$99.99
Format: Hardcover
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Takes an dual approach to French Guianese Creole to formulate a theory of how the language arose
Contributes to the debate on creole origins and serves as a template for investigations of other creoles
Combines social history and linguistic analysis to examine creole origins




Author: William Jennings,Stefan Pfänder
ISBN-10: 3319619519
ISBN-13: 9783319619514
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/11/2018
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.63d
By William Jennings
By William Jennings
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William Jennings is Senior Lecturer in French language, linguistics and culture at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research interests lie primarily within French colonial and encounter history, with a particular focus on the emergence of creole languages and societies.

Stefan Pfänder is Full Professor of Romance linguistics at Albert-Ludwigs-Universitäts Freiburg, Germany. His teaching focuses on French, Spanish, Italian and Creole, while his research centres around the emergence of grammatical constructions in interaction, and usage-based models of language variation and change.

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