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Pidgin and Creole Languages: Selected essays by Hugo Schuchardt
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Pidgin and Creole Languages: Selected essays by Hugo Schuchardt
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Schuchardt Hugo
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Edited and translated by Glenn G. Gilbert
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:168 | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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Category/Genre | Sociolinguistics |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780521108904
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Classifications | Dewey:417.22 |
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Audience | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | |
Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
16 April 2009 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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.
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