Pidgin and Creole Languages: Selected essays by Hugo Schuchardt

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Pidgin and Creole Languages: Selected essays by Hugo Schuchardt
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Schuchardt Hugo
Edited and translated by Glenn G. Gilbert
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:168
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreSociolinguistics
ISBN/Barcode 9780521108904
ClassificationsDewey:417.22
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 16 April 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Hugo Schuchardt was effectively the founder of the flourishing field of creole studies. He assembled an enormous corpus of source-material in the form of texts, transcripts, word-lists and dictionaries and between 1880 and 1920 published the results with his own commentaries in a series of reviews and articles. Professor Gilbert has edited and translated a coherent selection of the most important essays, comprising Schuchadrt's studies of the English-based creoles and two of his major theoretical papers on the Lingua Franca and the Language of the Saramacca Negroes in Surinam. His introduction surveys Schuchardt's work as a whole and analyses his more specific contributions in these selections. The volume will be welcomed by a wide range of linguists and anthropologists.