In:Creole and Dialect Continua: Standard acquisition processes in Belize and China (PRC)
Geneviève Escure
[Creole Language Library 18] 1997
► pp. viii–ix
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Published online: 6 March 1997
https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.18.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgmentsv
Introduction: Developmental continua1
The Belizean speech community and the use of English25
Creole acrolects as innovations57
The interaction of syntax and pragmatics in acrolets: Topic marking89
Sociolinguistic perspectives on Chinese125
Topic mechanisms in Chinese: An overview151
Literary and colloquial Putonghua185
Topic strategies in varieties of Putonghua as second dialects223
Conclusions: Pragmatic universals in second dialect acquisitiom263
Bibliography289
Index303
