John Holm

Languages in Contact

The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This accounts for the structural differences between non-Creole language varieties and their European source languages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9780521068376
• ISBN-10: 0521068371
• Artikelnr.: 23831600

Autorenporträt

John Holm is Chair, English Linguistics and Director, Graduate Program in Descriptive Linguistics at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Language contact and partial restructuring
2. Social factors in partial restructuring
3. The verb phrase
4. The noun phrase
5. The structure of clauses
6. Conclusions.