Defining Creole
A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a language usually under conditions of subordination, but that structurally they are indistinguishable from other languages.The articles by John H. McWhorter collected in this volume demonstrate that this is in fact untrue. Creole languages, while complex and nuanced as all human languages are, are delineable from older languages as the result of their having come into existence only a few centuries ago. Then adults learn a language under untutored conditions, they abbreviate…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-516669-9
- EAN: 9780195166699
- Produktnummer: 22666316
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 444 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.6 cm 618 g
- Gewicht: 618
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