Claire Lefebvre

Relabeling in Language Genesis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Claire Lefebrve offers a coherent picture of research on relabeling over the last 15 years, and replies to the questions that have been directed at the relabeling-based theory of creole genesis presented in Lefebvre (1998) and related work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780199945313
• ISBN-10: 0199945314
• Artikelnr.: 47865034

Autorenporträt

Claire Lefebvre is Professor of Linguistics at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. She has worked for more than thirty years on the problem of creole genesis in all areas of the grammar.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* List of Abbreviations
* Chapter 1: Introduction
* Chapter 2: Relabeling: A Central Process in Language Contact/Genesis
* Chapter 3: A Relabeling-Based Theory of Creole Genesis
* Chapter 4: Relabeling in Two Different Theories of the Lexicon
* Renée Lambert-Brétière and Claire Lefebvre
* Chapter 5: Relabeling and Word Order: A Construction Grammar
Perspective
* Claire Lefebvre and Renée Lambert-Brétière
* Chapter 6: Relabeling options: On Some Differences between Haitian
and Saramaccan
* Chapter 7: Relabeling and the Contribution of the Superstrate
Languages to Creoles
* Chapter 8: Relabeling and the Typological Classification of Creoles
* Chapter 9: Conclusion: A Strong Alternative to the Bioprogram
Hypothesis
* References
* Index of Subjects
* Index of Authors