Substrate and Adstrate: The Origins of Spatial Semantics in West African Pidgincreoles

By Micah Corum

This volume provides a large-scale, in-depth analysis of locative structures in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English and compares those structures to locatives in their lexifier, substrate, and adstrate languages. The work draws on new research methods for investigating substrate and adstrate influence in semantics and creole genesis.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1614516200
• ISBN13: 9781614516200
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary