Languages in Contact: The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars
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Accounting for the structural differences between non-creole language varieties (such as African-American English, Afrikaans and Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese) and the European source languages out of which they grew, John Holm argues that these differences resulted from partial restructuring. Whereas some of the source languages' morphological and syntactic features were retained, a significant number of features from the non-native speakers' languages...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521430518
ISBN13:9780521430517
Release Date:February 2004
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:196 Pages
Weight:1.01 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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