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1. Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization, Diachrony, and Development
by Michel De Graff (Editor)
The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language development from a number of linguistic-theoretic and ... More
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4. Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles
by Mark Sebba
In the last three decades, the field of pidgin and creole studies has become recognized as central to modern linguistics. Designed for the student ... More
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5. Contact Languages: Ecology and Evolution in Asia
by Umberto Ansaldo
Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieties of languages? What are the social settings that determine whether a ... More
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7. Atlantic Meets Pacific: A Global View of Pidginization and Creolization
by Dr. Francis Byrne (Editor), Prof. John Holm (Editor)
Selected papers from the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics.
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8. Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change
by Salikoko S Mufwene
Language Evolution examines this processes by which languages change, from the macroecological perspective of competition and natural selection.
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9. Contact Languages
by Holm John, John Holm (Editor), Susanne Michaelis (Editor)
Contact has always been a normal part of the development of languages, from those of ancient empires, those of colonial expansion, and to those of ... More
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10. Variation in the Caribbean: From Creole Continua to Individual Agency
by Lars Hinrichs (Editor), Joseph T. Farquharson (Editor)
The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics as an academic field. It has ... More
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11. Foreign Accent: Ontogeny& Phylogeny
by Roy C Major (Editor)
Even though second-language learners may master the grammar and vocabulary of the new languages, they almost never achieve a native phonology (accent ... More
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12. Language Complexity: Typology, Contact, Change
by Matti Miestamo (Editor), Kaius Sinnemaki (Editor), Prof. Fred Karlsson (Editor)
Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume a thematic selection of ... More
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13. Language Evolution
by Salikoko S Mufwene
Language Evolution examines this processes by which languages change, from the macroecological perspective of competition and natural selection.
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16. Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creole
by Mark Sebba, Jane Sebba
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18. Creole Languages and Language Acquisition
by Herman Wekker (Editor)
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19. The Ecology of Language Evolution
by Salikoko S Mufwene (Editor), Robert Chaudenson (Editor), Braj B Kachru (Editor)
This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages.
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20. The Development of Grammar in Spanish and the Romance Languages
by Dr. Eduardo D Faingold
Researchers in Romance languages will find this book a stimulating and broad-ranging treatment of the development of grammar, demonstrating the ... More
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21. The Acquisition of Creole Languages: How Children Surpass Their Input
by Dany Adone
How do children acquire a Creole as their first language? This relatively underexplored question is the starting point for this first book of its ... More
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22. Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages: Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focul and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
by Francis Byrne (Editor), Donald Winford (Editor)
The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve ... More
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25. Generative studies on Creole languages
by Pieter Muysken (Editor)
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