Creole studies : phylogenetic approaches /
This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and insights into the relationships between creoles and non-creoles, creoles and other contact varieties, and between creoles and lexifier language...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Key concepts in the history of creole studies
- 3. Phylogenetics in biology and linguistics
- 4. Methods
- 5. Creole typology I
- 6. Creole typology II
- 7. West African languages and creoles worldwide
- 8. The typology and classification of French-based creoles
- 9. The simple emerging from the complex
- 10. Dutch creoles compared with their lexifier
- 11. Similarities and differences among Iberian creoles
- 12. Afro-Hispanic varieties in comparison
- 13. Cognitive creolistics and semantic primes
- 14. Lexicalization patterns in core vocabulary
- 15. The semantics of Englishes and Creoles
- 16. Feature pools show that creoles are distinct languages due to their special origin
- 17. Complementing creole studies with phylogenetics
- 18. From basic to cultural semantics
- 19. Linguistics and evolutionary biology continue to cross-fertilize each other and may do so even more in the future, including in the field of creolistics.