This volume offers a thorough examination of the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse properties of noun phrases in a wide variety of creole (and non-cr

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The Atlas presents commentaries and colour maps showing how 130 linguistic features - phonological, syntactic, morphological, and lexical - are distributed amon

In recent years, there has been a new interest in evaluating complex structures in languages. The implications of such studies are varied, e.g., the distinction

Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major