Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language: Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole

by William Jennings

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This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the authors employ this dual methodology to reconstruct how multilingual individuals drew on their perception of Romance and West African languages to form French Guianese Creole. In doing so, they facilitate the application of a usage-based approach to language...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:3319871978

ISBN13:9783319871974

Release Date:June 2019

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.68 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"

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