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Substrate and Adstrate : The Origins of Spatial Semantics in West African Pidgincreoles / Micah Corum.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] ; 10Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781614516200
  • 9781501500916
  • 9781614514626
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 417.22 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Spatial semantics in West African pidgincreoles -- Chapter 2. Locative predication in Guinea Coast languages: a survey of features in the West African (Pidgin) Creoles’ extended typological matrix -- Chapter 3. Topological spatial relations in Ghanaian Student Pidgin: an exercise in semantic typology in a West African pidgincreole context -- Chapter 4. Meanings and functions of for in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English -- Chapter 5. Sources of locative for in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English -- Chapter 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Index
Summary: Summary: This volume provides a large-scale, in-depth analysis of locative structures in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English and compares those structures to locatives in their lexifier, substrate, and adstrate languages. The work draws on new research methods for investigating substrate and adstrate influence in semantics and creole genesis.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Spatial semantics in West African pidgincreoles -- Chapter 2. Locative predication in Guinea Coast languages: a survey of features in the West African (Pidgin) Creoles’ extended typological matrix -- Chapter 3. Topological spatial relations in Ghanaian Student Pidgin: an exercise in semantic typology in a West African pidgincreole context -- Chapter 4. Meanings and functions of for in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English -- Chapter 5. Sources of locative for in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English -- Chapter 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Index

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This volume provides a large-scale, in-depth analysis of locative structures in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English and compares those structures to locatives in their lexifier, substrate, and adstrate languages. The work draws on new research methods for investigating substrate and adstrate influence in semantics and creole genesis.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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