| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 435 pages) : illustrations |
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OUP E-Books
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-413) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Creole dialects -- Grammar
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Creole dialects -- Lexicology
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Creole dialects -- Inflection
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Linguistic change.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Creole Languages.
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Creole dialects -- Grammar
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Linguistic change
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Creooltalen.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2003061045 |
| ISBN |
1423720768 |
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9781423720768 |
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9780195166705 |
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0195166701 |
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9780195166699 |
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0195166698 |
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1433700859 |
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9781433700859 |
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1280534028 |
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9781280534027 |
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9786610534029 |
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6610534020 |
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0195347234 |
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9780195347234 |
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0198044410 |
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9780198044413 |
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