Creolists acknowledge the critical role of Krio in furthering understanding of the emergence and development of Atlantic creoles. This book examines the development and restructuring of Krio linguistic properties from diachronic and synchronic perspectives and explores historical, linguistic, social, and demographic contexts under which Krio emerged, expanded, and evolved. It appraises effects of language contact (historical and contemporary) on its phonological, lexical, lexico-semantic, morphophonological, and morphosyntactic properties. It is great resource for academic teaching and for scholars, researchers, and practitioners engaged in comparative work of pidgin and creole languages.
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Contact and Evolution in the History of Krio
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- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Krio, the lingua franca of Sierra Leone
- Chapter 2 Language contact and the emergence and development of pidgin and creole languages
- Chapter 3 Origin, historical development, and diffusion of Krio
- Chapter 4 Lexico-semantic properties
- Chapter 5 Phonological properties
- Chapter 6 Word-formation
- Chapter 7 Syntax of basic sentence structure
- Chapter 8 Comparative constructions
- Chapter 9 Focused/cleft constructions
- Chapter 10 Verb serialization
- Chapter 11 Complex constructions
- Chapter 12 Contemporary linguistic variation in Krio
- Subject index
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