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Hawai'i Creole: morphology and syntax

Kent Sakoda, Jeff Siegel

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    Abstract

    Hawai'i Creole is a creole language lexified predominantly by English but also by other languages such as Hawaiian and Japanese. It is spoken by approximately 600,000 people in the American state of Hawai'i . For details on its lexicon and origins (including an account of the influence of other languages on its morphosyntax), see section 1 of the chapter on the phonology of Hawaii Creole (Sakoda and Siegel, other volume).
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationA handbook of varieties of English: A Multimedia tool
    EditorsBernd Kortmann, Kate Burridge, Rajend Mesthrie, Edgar W Schneider, Clive Upton
    Place of PublicationBerlin, Germany
    PublisherMouton de Gruyter
    Pages742-769
    Volume2: Morphology and Syntax
    Edition1
    ISBN (Print)3110175320, 9783110175325
    Publication statusPublished - 2004

    Keywords

    • Linguistic Structures (incl Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)

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