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

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

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
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Corum, Micah,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] , 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (278 p.)
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Table of 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

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