The Genesis of a Language The Formation and Development of Korlai Portuguese

Clements, J. Clancy

ISBN 10: 1556191715 ISBN 13: 9781556191718

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996

Language: English

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Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996. Xviii + [283] pp. Printed yellow cloth. An excellent copy with price sticker/notation inside front cover. Pages are clean, white, and unmarked. ; Creole Language Library; Vol. 16; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 301 pages.

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Title: The Genesis of a Language The Formation and Development of Korlai Portuguese
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1556191715
ISBN 13: 9781556191718
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
Condition: Fine+
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Weight: 1.43 pounds

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Korlai Portuguese (KP), a Portuguese-based creole only recently discovered by linguists, originated around 1520 on the west coast of India. Initially isolated from its Hindu and Muslim neighbors by social and religious barriers, the small Korlai community lost virtually all Portuguese contact as well after 1740. This volume is the first-ever comprehensive treatment of the formation, linguistic components, and rapidly changing situation of this exotic creole.
The product of ten years of research, Korlai Creole Portuguese provides an exciting, in-depth diachronic look at a language that is now showing the strain of intense cultural pressure from the surrounding Marathi-speaking population. Framed in Thomason and Kaufman’s 1988 model of contact-induced language change, the author’s analysis is enriched by numerous comparisons with sister creoles, apart from medieval Portuguese and Marathi.
This book contrastively examines the following areas:
phonemic inventories, phonological processes, stress assignment, syllable structure, paradigm restructuring, paradigm use, lexicon, word formation, semantic borrowing, loan translations, grammatical relation marking, pre- and postnominal modification, negation, subject and object deletion, embedding, and word order.

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