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Languages in Contact: The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars - Holm, John, Professor
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There is widespread agreement that certain non-Creole language varieties are structurally quite different from the European languages out of which they grew; however, until recently, linguists have found difficulty in accounting for either their genesis or their synchronic structure. This 2003 study argues that the transmission of source languages from native to non-native speakers led to 'partial restructuring', whereby some of the source languages' morphosyntax was retained, but a significant number of substrate and ...

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Languages in Contact: The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars 2008, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521068376

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Languages in Contact: The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars 2004, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521430517

Hardcover