Author: Karl J. Franklin
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Category : Tolai language
Languages : en
Pages : 101

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Author: Karl James Franklin
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Category : Kuanua language
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Author: Francis Byrne
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027276943
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, but also, in a much broader sense, the many other phenomena and processes found in these languages which serve to highlight sentence-level elements. The book is organized into five sections: 1. verb focus, predicate clefting and predicate doubling; 2. focus and anti-focus; 3. focus and pronominals; 4. discourse patterning; 5. grammatical relations.

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Category : Melanesia
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: Claire Lefebvre
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027206767
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 641

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Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For example, creole languages typologically pair with their superstrate languages (Chaudenson 2003), with their substrate languages (Lefebvre 1998), or even, creole languages are alike (Bickerton 1984) such that they constitute a definable typological class (McWhorter 1998). This book contains 25 chapters bearing on detailed comparisons of some 30 creoles and their substrate languages. As the substrate languages of these creoles are typologically different, the detailed investigation of substrate features in the creoles leads to a particular answer to the question of how creoles should be classified typologically. The bulk of the data show that creoles reproduce the typological features of their substrate languages. This argues that creoles cannot be claimed to constitute a definable typological class."

Author: Stephen Adolphe Wurm
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Category : Austronesian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 800

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Author: John Lynch
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0700711287
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 942

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The volume contains five background chapters: The Oceanic Languages, Sociolinguistic Background, Typological Overview, Proto-Oceanic and Internal Subgrouping. Part of 2 vol set. Author Ross from ANU.

Author: Joseph Harold Greenberg
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804716130
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 782

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This is a collection of 37 of the most important, enduring, and influential essays by one of the great linguists of this century, gathered from a wide range of journals and books spanning four decades.

Author: Gillian Sankoff
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512809586
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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Category : Austronesian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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