Enoch Oladé Aboh

The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on a detailed study of creole languages, this book contributes to the debate on language acquisition and change by showing that language acquisition requires contact between different linguistic sub-systems that feed into the hybrid grammars that learners develop. Competition between these grammars may eventually result in language change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9780521769983
• ISBN-10: 0521769981
• Artikelnr.: 42362513

Autorenporträt

Enoch Oladé Aboh is Professor of Linguistics at Universiteit van Amsterdam. His publications include The Morphosyntax of Complement-head Sequences (2004). In 2012 he was awarded the renowned one-year NIAS fellowship, and in 2003 he obtained the prestigious Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) five-year vidi grant to study the relation between information structure and syntax.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Salikoko S. Mufwene
1. Introduction
2. The agents of creole formation: geopolitics and cultural aspects of the Slave Coast
3. The emergence of creoles: a review of some current hypotheses
4. Competition and selection
5. The role of vulnerable interfaces in language change: the case of the D-system
6. The emergence of the clause left periphery
7. The emergence of serial verb constructions
8. Conclusions: some final remarks on hybrid grammars, the creole prototype, and language acquisition and change.