George L. Huttar, Mary L. Huttar
The most thorough deillegalscription of a Creole Language to date
The authors' close aquaintance with the Ndyuka community has lasted 25 years
Numerous examples throughout allow for detailed study of language phenomena.
Book has been compiled through interaction with linguistically aware native speakers.
|This volume constitutes what is perhaps the most thorough deillegalscription of a creole language to date. Following the Deillegalscriptive Grammar Series outline, it provides detailed coverage of a full range of grammatical, phonological and lexical information, written with the interests of formalists and functionalists, creolists and students of language universals and typology in mind. Expressions of lin-uistic judgements by both native and trained native speakers of Ndyuka combine with close study of texts to provide a solid basis for the work. More than two thousand examples of constructions and forms are considered in context and these give the careful reader a rich picture of all the stuctural and functional aspects of this radical creole. The authors' close acquaintance with the Ndyuka language community spans more than 25 years and allows the intuitions of Ndyuka speakers to show through clearly. Numerous cross references and an index of forms and topics of special interest supplement the detailed table of contents, facilitating the testing of hypotheses on language universals, typology, creolization, and processes such as clefting, relativization and verb serialization.
Abbreviations, Map, Introduction, 1. Syntax, 2. Morphology, 3. Phonology, 4. Ideophones and interjections, 5. Lexicon, Bibliography, Index of selected forms and topics
The most thorough deillegalscription of a creole language to date. It provides detailed coverage of a full range of grammatical, phonological and lexical information, giving a rich picture of the aspects of this radical creole.
Über den Autor
George L. Huttar, Mary L. Huttar
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Abbreviations, Map, Introduction, 1. Syntax, 2. Morphology, 3. Phonology, 4. Ideophones and interjections, 5. Lexicon, Bibliography, Index of selected forms and topics
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The most thorough deillegalscription of a creole language to date. It provides detailed coverage of a full range of grammatical, phonological and lexical information, giving a rich picture of the aspects of this radical creole.
