Ndyuka

Ndyuka
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9781136861727
ISBN-13 : 1136861726
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Book Synopsis Ndyuka by : George L. Huttar

Download or read book Ndyuka written by George L. Huttar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes what is perhaps the most thorough description of a creole language to date. Following the Descriptive 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.


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