Why Architecture

Muschenheim, William

Karoma Pub

Historicity and Variation in Creole Studies

From the book flap description: "Why do some pidgins die out or change only very slowly, whereas others creaolize completely within a single generation? What factors in the social context trigger or retard the linguistic processes involved in pidginization and creolization and how? This unique collection is the first devoted entirely to the investigation of the social conditions surrounding the formation of pidgins and creoles, an area of research that has been attracting increasing attention among creolists and sociolinguists. The notion that social foces are the crucial factor in determining where and when pidginization will occur is a fundamental assumption underlying the work of this volume. The contributions explore this problem under the assumption that pidginization and creolization are not freak events exampt from the laws governing ordinary linguistic processes but rather that pidginazation and creolization are combinations of these same ordinary linguistic processes that can be predicted to occur whenever and wherever the proper social conditions are extant.  The problem is to isolate the significant factors of the social environment that are necessary or sufficient to trigger the formation of pidgin and creole languages."

Social Context of Creolization

Washabaugh, William

Woolford, Ellen

Isle De France Creole Affinities and Origins

Baker, Philip

Corne, Chris

Isle De France Creole: Affinities and Origins

Reference

An oral history of the East Sutherland Fisherfolk"This is the story of a small highland community in the early twentieth century, told in direct and vivid language which brings to life the varied concerns, beliefs, and loyalties of the Golspie fisherfolk. But it is more than that."A vanished way of life remembered-painstakingly recreated from the memories of those who lived it, and party in their words, the fisherfolk life of East Sutherland is here celebrated by Nancy C. Dorian, who has written extensively about East Sutherland Gaelic.

Tyranny of Tide: An Oral History of the East Sutherland Fisherfolk

Dorian, Nancy C.

Black English: Educational Equity and the Law

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Typology Relationship and Time

Shevoroshkin, Vitalij V.

Words, Language & Grammar

Roots of language was originally published in 1981 by Karoma Press (Ann Arbor). It was the first work to systematically develop a theory first suggested by Coelho in the late nineteenth century: that the creation of creole languages somehow reflected universal properties of language. The book also proposed that the same set of properties would be found to emerge in normal first-language acquisition and must have emerged in the original evolution of language. These proposals, some of which were elaborated in an article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1984), were immediately controversial and gave rise to a great deal of subsequent research in creoles, much of it aimed at rebutting the theory. The book also served to legitimize and stimulate research in language evolution, a topic regarded as off-limits by linguists for over a century. The present edition contains a foreword by the author bringing the theory up to date; a fuller exposition of many of its aspects can be found in the author's most recent work, More than nature needs (Harvard University Press, 2014).

Roots of Language

Bickerton, Derek

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