Contact and Evolution in the History of Krio

The Evolution of Linguistic Properties – Past and Present
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-078452-7
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]

Creolists acknowledge the critical role of Krio in furthering understanding of the emergence and development of Atlantic creoles. This book examines the development and restructuring of Krio linguistic properties from diachronic and synchronic perspectives and explores historical, linguistic, social, and demographic contexts under which Krio emerged, expanded, and evolved. It appraises effects of language contact (historical and contemporary) on its phonological, lexical, lexico-semantic, morphophonological, and morphosyntactic properties. It is great resource for academic teaching and for scholars, researchers, and practitioners engaged in comparative work of pidgin and creole languages.

Zielgruppe

Researchers interested in Pidgins & Creoles, Sociolinguistics, La

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finney, Malcolm Awadajin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Malcolm Awadajin Finney, California State University Long Beach, California, USA.