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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: emergence of hybrid grammars
    sub title: language contact and change
  name:
    name part: Aboh, Enoch Olade
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: συγγραφέας.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Cambridge
    publisher: Cambridge University Press
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 346 σ. : εικ. ; 24 εκ.
  abstract: "Children are extremely gifted in acquiring their native languages, but languages nevertheless change over time. Why does this paradox exist? In this study of creole languages, Enoch Aboh addresses this question, arguing that language acquisition requires contact between different linguistic sub-systems that feed into the hybrid grammars that learners develop. There is no qualitative difference between a child learning their language in a multilingual environment and a child raised in a monolingual environment. In both situations, children learn to master multiple linguistic sub-systems that are in contact and may be combined to produce new variants. These new variants are part of the inputs for subsequent learners. Contributing to the debate on language acquisition and change, Aboh shows that language learning is always imperfect: learners' motivation is not to replicate the target language faithfully but to develop a system close enough to the target that guarantees successful communication and group membership"--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: Foreword Salikoko S. Mufwene; 1. Introduction; 2. The agents of creole formation: geopolitics and cultural aspects of the Slave Coast; 3. The emergence of creoles: a review of some current hypotheses; 4. Competition and selection; 5. The role of vulnerable interfaces in language change: the case of the D-system; 6. Fi-fi, fu-fu and ni;-ni;: the emergence of the clause left periphery; 7. The emergence of serial verb constructions; 8. Conclusions: some final remarks on hybrid grammars, the creole prototype, and language acquisition and change.
  target audience: general
  note: Enoch Olade Aboh.
  note: Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία και ευρετήριο.
  subject:
    topic: Γλώσσα και γλώσσες
    topic: Μελέτη και διδασκαλία
  subject:
    topic: Γλώσσα και εκπαίδευση
  subject:
    topic: Μητρική γλώσσα
  classification: 417.22
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge approaches to language contact
  identifier: 9780521769983 (σκληρόδετο)
  identifier: 2014047368
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 141222
    record change date: 20210121140045.0
    record identifier: 18413666
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng