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

• Main Authors: Jennings, William (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Pfänder, Stefan (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Linguistic change.; African languages.; Historical linguistics.; Romance languages.; Sociolinguistics.; Language Change.; African Languages.; Historical Linguistics.; Language History.; Romance Languages.

This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the authors employ this dual methodology to reconstruct how multilingual individuals drew on their perceptio...