The missing Spanish creoles : recovering the birth of plantation contact languages /
John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this provocative exploration of the origins of plantation creoles. Using a wealth of data--linguistic, sociolinguistic, historical--he proposes that the "limited access model" of creole genesis is seriously flawed
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this provocative exploration of the origins of plantation creoles. Using a wealth of data--linguistic, sociolinguistic, historical--he proposes that the "limited access model" of creole genesis is seriously flawed |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-263) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520923492 0520923499 0585391661 9780585391663 0520219996 9780520219991 1597347566 9781597347563 |