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Defining creole / John H. McWhorter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McWhorter, John H., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creole dialects--Grammar.
- Creole dialects.
- Creole dialects--Lexicology.
- Creole dialects--Inflection.
- Linguistic change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (435 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Collecting recent work by John H. McWhorter on creole languages & their origins, this volume showcases many of his novel & controversial theories, including the claim that the differences between creoles & their source languages is much more than a matter of inflection.
- Contents:
- 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
- 7. The Diachrony of Predicate Negation in Saramaccan Creole: Synchronic and Typological Implications8. Sisters under the Skin: A Case for Genetic Relationship between the Atlantic English-Based Creoles; 9. Creole Transplantation: A Source of Solutions to Resistant Anomalies; 10. Creoles, Intertwined Languages, and "Bicultural Identity"; Part III: The Gray Zone: The Cline of Pidginization or the Inflectional Parameter?; 11. What Happened to English?; 12. Inflectional Morphology and Universal Grammar: Post Hoc versus Propter Hoc; 13. Strange Bedfellows: Recovering the Origins of Black English
- NotesReferences; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 9780190290405
- 0190290404
- 9780197721490
- 0197721494
- 9780198044413
- 0198044410
- 9781280534027
- 1280534028
- 9781423720768
- 1423720768
- 9780195347234
- 0195347234
- 9781433700859
- 1433700859
- OCLC:
- 559933424
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