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The Creole Debate
Language: en
Pages: 182
Authors: John H. McWhorter
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-17 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and what their political and linguistic s
The Creole Debate
Language: en
Pages: 181
Authors: John H. McWhorter
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-17 - Publisher:

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A compelling argument for why creoles are their own unique entity, which have developed independently of other processes of language development and change.
The Creole Debate
Language: en
Pages: 211
Authors: John H. McWhorter
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-17 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and what their political and linguistic s
Creole Discourse
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors:
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Creole languages are characteristically associated with a negative image. How has this prestige been formed? And is it as static as the diglossic situation in m
The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: Jeff Siegel
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-28 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book examines the emergence of pidgins and creoles and the controversies surrounding current theories about them. Among the questions considered are why th