| Word-Formation and Creolisation: The Case of Early Sranan Contributor(s): Braun, Maria (Author) |
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ISBN: 3484305177 ISBN-13: 9783484305175 Publisher: de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $266.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Historical & Comparative - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Morphology |
| Dewey: 417.22 |
| LCCN: 2010481636 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.13 lbs) 316 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book presents a comprehensive account of the word-formation patterns of an English-based creole language, Sranan, as found in its earliest sources, and compares them with the patterns attested in the input languages. It shows that the emergence of the patterns involved a variety of sources and mechanisms and was characterised by the absence of superstrate derivational affixes, the use of free morphemes as derivational markers and of compounding as the major word-formation strategy. The findings render untenable theoretical accounts of creole genesis based on one explanatory factor. |