
Defining Creole
John H. McWhorter(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 3. February 2005
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-19-516670-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume gathers the last ten years worth of published articles on creole languages and their origins by John H. McWhorter, a unique and often controversial scholar in the field. The articles fall into roughly three categories: defending his hypothesis that creole languages are synchronically distinguishable from older grammars, addressing the intersection between creole genesis and language change, and lastly countering the accepted argument that creoles' differences from their source languages (called lexifiers) are simply a matter of inflection. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of creole and pidgin studies, and lingustics more broadly.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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ISBN-13
978-0-19-516670-5 (9780195166705)
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