Languages in Contact: The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars

by John A. Holm

Book Overview

Accounting for the structural differences between non-creole language varieties (such as African-American English, Afrikaans and Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese) and the European source languages out of which they grew, John Holm argues that these differences resulted from partial restructuring. Whereas some of the source languages' morphological and syntactic features were retained, a significant number of features from the non-native speakers' languages...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521068371
• ISBN13: 9780521068376
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"