Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language: Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole

By William Jennings

Book Overview

Takes an dual approach to French Guianese Creole to formulate a theory of how the language arose
Contributes to the debate on creole origins and serves as a template for investigations of other creoles
Combines social history and linguistic analysis to examine creole origins

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319871978
• ISBN13: 9783319871974
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"