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oapen-20.500.12657-252422021-11-10T07:56:13Z A grammar of Pichi Yakpo, Kofi Linguistics Creole Languages bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics Pichi is an Afro-Caribbean English-lexifier Creole spoken on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. It is an offshoot of 19th century Krio (Sierra Leone) and shares many characteristics with West African relatives like Nigerian Pidgin, Cameroon Pidgin, and Ghanaian Pidgin English, as well as with the English-lexifier creoles of the insular and continental Caribbean. This comprehensive description presents a detailed analysis of the grammar and phonology of Pichi. It also includes a collection of texts and wordlists. Pichi features a nominative-accusative alignment, SVO word order, adjective-noun order, prenominal determiners, and prepositions. The language has a seven-vowel system and twenty-two consonant phonemes. Pichi has a two-tone system with tonal minimal pairs, morphological tone, and tonal processes. The morphological structure is largely isolating. 2019-04-18 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:38 2020-04-01T10:31:42Z 2020-04-01T10:31:42Z 2019-02-20 book 1004852 OCN: 1100491160 2363-5568 9783961101337 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25242 eng Studies in Diversity Linguistics application/pdf n/a 1004852.pdf Language Science Press 10.5281/zenodo.2546450 104795 10.5281/zenodo.2546450 0bad921f-3055-43b9-a9f1-ea5b2d949173 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783961101337 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Berlin 104795 Language Science Press 2018 - 2020 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Pichi is an Afro-Caribbean English-lexifier Creole spoken on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. It is an offshoot of 19th century Krio (Sierra Leone) and shares many characteristics with West African relatives like Nigerian Pidgin, Cameroon Pidgin, and Ghanaian Pidgin English, as well as with the English-lexifier creoles of the insular and continental Caribbean. This comprehensive description presents a detailed analysis of the grammar and phonology of Pichi. It also includes a collection of texts and wordlists. Pichi features a nominative-accusative alignment, SVO word order, adjective-noun order, prenominal determiners, and prepositions. The language has a seven-vowel system and twenty-two consonant phonemes. Pichi has a two-tone system with tonal minimal pairs, morphological tone, and tonal processes. The morphological structure is largely isolating.
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