Title: Creole studies in the 21st century: A brief presentation of the special issue on creole languages
Abstract:Since the beginnings of creole studies in the late 19th century, our understanding of what creole languages are and how they came about has increased tremendously. The discipline is now fully recogniz...Since the beginnings of creole studies in the late 19th century, our understanding of what creole languages are and how they came about has increased tremendously. The discipline is now fully recognized in wider linguistic circles and has contributed time and again to the global advancement of general linguistic theory. The field is interdisciplinary by nature, which is reflected in this collection of papers. The main focus of the special issue is on creole languages and touches upon subjects that range from traditional comparative work to computational studies, from research investigating a specific phenomenon in one particular language or groups of languages to studies encompassing the global diversity displayed by these high-contact varieties, from studies that deal with Atlantic creoles to investigations on creolized languages spoken in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean, and on the links that exist between them.Read More
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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