Contact and Evolution in the History of Krio
1st Edition
Published on 16. June 2025
XIV, 233 pages
978-3-11-078454-1 (ISBN)
Description
Creolists acknowledge the critical role of Krio in furthering understanding of the emergence and development of Atlantic creoles. This book examines the development and restructuring of Krio linguistic properties from diachronic and synchronic perspectives and explores historical, linguistic, social, and demographic contexts under which Krio emerged, expanded, and evolved. It appraises effects of language contact (historical and contemporary) on its phonological, lexical, lexico-semantic, morphophonological, and morphosyntactic properties. It is great resource for academic teaching and for scholars, researchers, and practitioners engaged in comparative work of pidgin and creole languages.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
10 s/w Tabellen, 1 farbige Abbildung
1 col. ill., 10 b/w tbl.
File size
6,52 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-11-078454-1 (9783110784541)
Schweitzer Classification
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Malcolm Awadajin Finney
Contact and Evolution in the History of Krio
The Evolution of Linguistic Properties - Past and Present
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06/2025
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Malcolm Awadajin Finney
Contact and Evolution in the History of Krio
The Evolution of Linguistic Properties - Past and Present
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06/2025
1st Edition
De Gruyter Mouton
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Person
Malcolm Awadajin Finney
, California State University Long Beach, California, USA.
Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Krio, the lingua franca of Sierra Leone
- Chapter 2 Language contact and the emergence and development of pidgin and creole languages
- Chapter 3 Origin, historical development, and diffusion of Krio
- Chapter 4 Lexico-semantic properties
- Chapter 5 Phonological properties
- Chapter 6 Word-formation
- Chapter 7 Syntax of basic sentence structure
- Chapter 8 Comparative constructions
- Chapter 9 Focused/cleft constructions
- Chapter 10 Verb serialization
- Chapter 11 Complex constructions
- Chapter 12 Contemporary linguistic variation in Krio
- References
- Subject index
