Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages.

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Main Author: Plag, Ingo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter, 2003
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten ; 478
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Section 1: Segments and syllables
  • Markedness, faithfulness and creolization: The retention of the unmarked
  • A new look at nasalization in Haitian Creole
  • Two types of R deletion in Haitian Creole
  • Rules vs. analogy: Modeling variation in word-final epenthesis in Sranan
  • New evidence from the past: To epenthesize or not to epenthesize? That is the question
  • Syllabic structure and creolization in Saotomense
  • Section 2: Stress, tone and intonation
  • The accentual system of Haitian Creole: The role of transfer and markedness values.
  • African American English suprasegmentals: A study of pitch patterns in the Black English of the United States
  • Section 3: Morphophonology
  • The role of tone and rhyme structure in the organisation of grammatical morphemes in Tobagonian
  • Prosodic contrast in Jamaican Creole reduplication
  • Syllable structure and lexical markedness in creole morphophonology: Determiner allomorphy in Haitian and elsewhere
  • Section 4: Derivational morphology
  • Early 18th century Sranan -man
  • Morphological processes of word formation in Chabacano (Philippine Spanish Creole).
  • The -pela suffix in Tok Pisin and the notion of 'simplicity' in pidgin and creole languages: What happens to morphology under contact?
  • Section 5: Inflectional morphology
  • What verbal morphology can tell us about creole genesis: the case of French-related creoles
  • Inflectional plural marking in pidgins and creoles: A comparative study
  • Inflectional categories in creole languages
  • Subject Index
  • Language Index
  • Author Index.