| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 435 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-413) and index. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Creole dialects -- Grammar.
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Creole dialects -- Grammar. |
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Creole dialects. |
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Creole dialects -- Lexicology.
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Lexicology. |
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Creole dialects -- Inflection.
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Linguistic change.
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Linguistic change. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McWhorter, John H. Defining creole. New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2005 0195166701 0195166698 (DLC) 2003061045 (OCoLC)53183675 |
| ISBN |
1423720768 (electronic book) |
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9781423720768 (electronic book) |
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9780195166705 (alkaline paper) |
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0195166701 (alkaline paper) |
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9780195166699 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0195166698 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1433700859 |
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9781433700859 |
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1280534028 |
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9781280534027 |
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