Substrate and Adstrate: The Origins of Spatial Semantics in West African Pidgincreoles

· Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] Book 10 · Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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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.

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Micah Corum, Hamburg University, Germany.

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