Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole /

This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the authors employ this dual methodology to reconstruct how multilingual individuals drew on their perceptio...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Jennings, William (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:	Linguistic change. African languages. Historical linguistics. Romance languages. Sociolinguistics.
ISBN:	9783319619521
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