Comparative Creole Syntax is a detailed reference of grammar that uses the same analytical structure to cover a large number of Creole languages. This book contains comparative grammars of 18 Creole languages of the Americas, Africa, Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific, written by some of the field's leading scholars. There are separate chapters for each language. Each chapter includes a sociohistorical introduction as well as a detailed grammar that treats about 100 structural features. The descriptive framework is common to all chapters, with corresponding section numbers to allow easy cross-reference. This makes this book the ideal complement to all existing general works on Pidgins and Creoles and an essential reference work for all specialists and students concerned with these languages. The book as a whole provides the broadest structural comparison between Creole languages yet undertaken.

Comparative Creole Syntax: Parallel Outlines of 18 Creole Grammars

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Words, Language & Grammar

Battlebridge Publications

Limits of Language

Parkvall, Mikael

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Showing how language and the world are interrelated, this book examines the ecolinguistic perspective in a wide range of domains including ecotourism, advertising, green campaigns, and environmental impact assessments. It provides the concepts and linguistic tools needed to gain a critical understanding of the role of language in shaping environmental attitudes and actions. The author argues that environmental problems require multiple perspectives for their solution and that preserving language diversity is a necessary part of preserving biodiversity. This book can be used as an introduction to the growing field of ecolinguistics or to add a linguistic perspective to environmental studies, environmental impact planning, ecotourism, and philosophy.

Language of Environment: Environment of Language: A Course in Ecolinguistics

Mühlhäusler, Peter

<p>Beneath the Dust of Time is an unconventional combination of history and the etymology of names. It was inspired and guided by two new paradigms. The first is the "Sahara hypothesis." This theory postulates a historical migration from North Africa to Europe, the Middle East and deep into Central Asia thousands of years ago, namely, when the end of the last Ice Age led to the emergence of the Sahara Desert in North Africa and to the retreat of the glaciers in Europe. The second is a radically new view of the history of the languages conventionally classified as Indo-European and Semitic. While there are countless studies of ancient history, almost all of them ignore the origins of the names of the peoples and places that determined the course of history. This study is Different. It aims to explain the origin and meaning of the names of peoples (e.g. Greeks, Germans), countries (e.g. Spain), continents (Europe, Africa), seas (Baltic), mountains (Alps, Pyrenees), rivers (Nile, Rhine), and cities (Rome, Babylon). These names are generally extremely old, and many of them can be traced back three millennia or more to migrants who had fled from the desrtifying homeland in North Africa and who spoke non-Indo-European languages such as Etruscan.</p>

Beneath the Dust of Time: A History of the Names of Peoples and Places

Jacques R. Pauwels

Genealogy

Let's Speak Cape Verdean (English and Creole Edition)

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