Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language

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Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language is written by William Jennings and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319619527 (ISBN 10) and 9783319619521 (ISBN 13).

This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the authors employ this dual methodology to reconstruct how multilingual individuals drew on their perception of Romance and West African languages to form French Guianese Creole. In doing so, they facilitate the application of a usage-based approach to language while simultaneously contributing significantly to the debate on creole origins. This innovative volume is sure to appeal to students and scholars of language history, creolisation and languages in contact. Chapter 3 is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.