![]() Semantic Transparency Semantic Transparency See the meaning of each morpheme or word in their forms Can indicate plurality, duration, or intensity Do pidgins/creoles show structional varation contrasting between questions and statements? No Design Features of Pidgin Languages 1. ![]() bladder = piss bag Reduplication Repeating something to express additional meanings "paraphrasing" Compounding Combining existing words to create new concepts wasteful Multi-functionality Words are used in multiple contexts (different grammatical categories) Circumbation Use of several words to describe a single concept Chinese What types of morphology do pidgins and creoles prefer? Agglutinating and Isolating Why is synthetic morphology avoided? Forces people to memorize the semantic connections between forms that are not phonetically or morpholigically similar ![]() walk + ed Isolating One word, one morpheme Words are not always predictable Agglutinating One-to-one correspondance between form of morpheme and its meaning Acocope Consonant deletion word medially Aphesis Syllable initial consonant deleted Who creates pidgins? Lower social class Syntax of Pidgins SVO Three types of Morphology Synthetic/Fusional, Agglutinating, Isolating Synthetic/Fusional Words contain several morphemes
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