| The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Volume III: Contact Languages Based on Languages from Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas Contributor(s): Michaelis, Susanne (Editor), Maurer, Philippe (Editor), Haspelmath, Martin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0199691428 ISBN-13: 9780199691425 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $228.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 417.22 |
| Series: Oxford Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 8.7" W x 10.9" (1.80 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These books represent the most systematic and comprehensive guide ever published to the world's pidgins, creoles and mixed languages, designed, edited, and written by the world's leading experts in the field. The three-volume Survey brings together over ninety leading experts to present concise accounts of the world's pidgin and creole languages. The division of its three volumes reflects the languages from which they originated. Each entry provides a linguistic and social history of the pidgin or creole in question and an analysis of their linguistic characteristics, and is accompanied by a location map and a bibliography. The accompanying Atlas of Pidgins and Creoles presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of 130 structural linguistic features. These cover their phonology, syntax, morphology, and lexicons. Each map is accompanied by a commentary. The project is the successor to the successful World Atlas of Language Structures and draws on the same linguistic, cartographic, and computing knowledge and skills of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Individually and together the volumes represent an outstanding and unique resource of central interest and value to linguists of all persuasions throughout the world. This volume covers contact languages based on languages from Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. The first include Kikongo-Kituba, Sango, Xavier Luffin, and Juba Arabic; the second Chinese Pidgin Russian, Singapore Bazaar Malay, and Pidgin; the third Gurindji Kriol; and the fourth Media Lengua, Chinuk Wawa, Michif, and Eskimo Pidgin. |