The Creole Debate

ISBN-13: 9781108450836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 178 str.

John McWhorter

Opis

A compelling argument for why creoles are their own unique entity, which have developed independently of other processes of language development and change.

Recenzje

'This eloquent and well-researched book on creole languages is the final nail to the coffin of the ideologists who claim that there is nothing special about the grammars of these languages. Chapeau!' Peter Bakker, Aarhus University, Denmark

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The creole exceptionalism hypothesis; 2. Is creolization just language mixture?; 3. Is creolization just second-language acquisition?; 4. What about complexity?; 5. Newer challenges; 6. Envoi.