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Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity : Why Do Languages Undress?.

In John McWhorter's Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense. His publicationssince the 1990s have argued that all languages of t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McWhorter, John H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2011.
Colección:Language Contact and Bilingualism LCB ; 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Abbreviations; Introduction: The creole litmus test and the NCSL challenge; I Creole exceptionalism; II Creole complexity; III Exceptional language change elsewhere; References; Index.