Substrate and Adstrate

The Origins of Spatial Semantics in West African Pidgincreoles

• Author(s): Micah Corum,
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• Pages: 292
• ISBN_10: 1614514623
  ISBN_13: 9781614514626
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics , Language Arts & Disciplines / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics ,

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This volume provides a large-scale, in-depth analysis of locative structures in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English and compares those structures to locatives in their lexifier, substrate, and adstrate languages. The work draws on new research methods for investigating substrate and adstrate influence in semantics and creole genesis.