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Defining creole [electronic resource] / John H. McWhorter.

By: McWhorter, John H.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2005General Notes: Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-413) and index.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 435 p.) : ill.ISBN: 1423720768 (electronic bk.); 9781423720768 (electronic bk.); 9780195166705 (alk. paper); 0195166701 (alk. paper); 9780195166699 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0195166698 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1433700859; 9781433700859; 1280534028; 9781280534027.Subject(s): Creole dialects -- Grammar | Creole dialects -- Lexicology | Creole dialects -- Inflection | Linguistic changeGenre/Form: Electronic books DDC classification: 417/.22 Online resources: Access full-text materials at no charge:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-413) and index.

Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.

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

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.

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