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English language --- Dialectology --- Variation linguistique --- Variation --- Dialects --- Variation linguistique.

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English language -- Dialects -- England -- Lancashire --- English poetry --- Bamford

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Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and what their political and linguistic status should be. Indeed, over the past twenty years, some creole specialists have argued that it has been wrong to think of creoles as anything but language blends in the same way that Yiddish is a blend of German and Hebrew and Slavic. Here, John H. McWhorter debunks the most widely accepted idea that creoles are created in the same way as 'children', taking characteristics from both 'parent' languages, and its underlying assumption that all historical and biological processes are the same. Instead, the facts support the original, and more interesting, argument that creoles are their own unique entity and are among the world's only genuinely new languages.

Creole dialects. --- Languages in contact. --- Creole dialects --- Languages in contact --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Creolan languages --- Sociolinguistics --- Areal linguistics --- Languages, Mixed --- Pidgin languages

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What is the explanation for the nature, character and evolution of the many different varieties of English in the world today? Which changes in the English language are the legacy of its origins and which are the product of novel influences in the places to which it was transported? Roots of English is a groundbreaking investigation into four dialects from parts of northern Britain out of which came the founding populations of many regions in other parts of the world. Sali Tagliamonte comprehensively describes and analyses the key features of the dialects and their implications for subsequent developments of English. Her examination of dialect features contributes substantive evidence for assessing and understanding bigger issues in sociolinguistic theory. Based on exciting new findings, the book will appeal to those interested in dialects, from the Anglophile to the syntactician.

English language --- Dialectology --- Anglais (langue) --- Dialectes --- Dialects --- Variation. --- Germanic languages --- Colonies. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics

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This textbook is a clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being. Starting with an overview of the field's basic concepts, it surveys the new languages that developed as a result of the European expansion to the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Long misunderstood as 'bad' versions of European languages, today such varieties as Jamaican Creole English, Haitian Creole French and New Guinea Pidgin are recognized as distinct languages in their own right. John Holm examines the structure of these pidgins and creoles, the social history of their speakers, and the theories put forward to explain how their vocabularies, sound systems and grammars evolved. His new findings on structural typology, including non-Atlantic creoles, permit a wide-ranging assessment of the nature of restructured languages worldwide. This much-needed book will be welcomed by students and researchers in linguistics, sociolinguistics, western European languages, anthropology and sociology.

Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Creolan languages --- Pidgin --- Creole dialects --- Pidgin languages --- 800.88 --- 800.88 Mengtalen --- Mengtalen --- Contact vernaculars --- Hybrid languages --- Jargons --- Pidgeon languages --- Pigeon languages --- Lingua francas --- Languages, Mixed --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Creole dialects. --- Pidgin languages.