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Gathers articles on creole languages and their origins, by John H McWhorter, a unique and often controversial scholar in the field. This book is of interest to scholars and students of creole and pidgin studies, and lingustics more broadly.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McWhorter, John H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
Creole dialects > Grammar.
Creole dialects > Lexicology.
Creole dialects > Inflection.
Linguistic change.
Langues créoles > Grammaire.
Langues créoles > Lexicologie.
Langues créoles > Flexion.
Changement linguistique.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Creole Languages.
Creole dialects > Grammar
Linguistic change
Creooltalen.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Is There Such a Thing as a Creole?; 1. Defining "Creole" as a Synchronic Term; 2. The World's Simplest Grammars Are Creole Grammars; 3. The Rest of the Story: Restoring Pidginization to Creole Genesis Theory; 4. Saramaccan and Haitian as Young Grammars: The Pitfalls of Syntactocentrism in Creole Genesis Research; 5. The Founder Principle versus the Creole Prototype: Squaring Theory with Data; Part II: Is Creole Change Different from Language Change in Older Languages?; 6. Looking into the Void: Zero Copula in the Creole Mesolect.

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