Languages in contact: the partial restructuring of vernaculars
Auteur :
Holm, John
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521068376
Date de publication :
10 juil. 2008
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,1 cm
Poids :
300 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This 2003 book accounts for the structural differences between 'non-Creole' language varieties - such as African-American English - and their European source languages. John Holm argues that these differences resulted from 'partial restructuring', whereby some of the source languages' features were retained, but many features from the non-native speakers' language were also introduced.