TY - BOOK ID - 30745123 TI - Ghanaian pidgin English in its West African context: a sociohistorical and structural analysis PY - 1999 VL - v. 24 SN - 01727362 SN - 1283548968 9786613861412 9027272964 9789027272966 1556197225 9027248826 9781556197222 9789027248824 PB - Amsterdam Benjamins DB - UniCat KW - Pidgin English KW - Pidgin languages KW - History. KW - Contact vernaculars KW - Hybrid languages KW - Jargons KW - Pidgeon languages KW - Pigeon languages KW - Pidgeon English KW - Pigeon English KW - Lingua francas KW - Languages, Mixed KW - English language KW - Dialects KW - History KW - E-books KW - Pidgin KW - Dialectology KW - Ghana UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30745123 AB - This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPE's structure and sociolinguistics. Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other West African Pidgins, in particular the development of, and interrelations between, the different varieties of restructured English in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Cameroon. This monograph further includes an overview of the history of Afro-European contact languages in Lower Guinea with special emphasis on the Gold Coast; an outline of the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a description of how and when the transplantation of Sierra Leonean Krio to other West African countries took place; an analysis of the linguistic evidence for the origin, development, and spread of restructured Englishes on the Lower Guinea Coast; an account of the different varieties of GhaPE and their sociolinguistic status in the contemporary linguistic ecology of Ghana; as well as a comprehensive structural description of the "uneducated" variety of GhaPE. ER -