Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity
Why Do Languages Undress?
In John McWhorter's Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense. His publications since the 1990s have argued that all languages of the world that lack a certain three traits together are creoles (i.e. born as pidgins a few hundred years ago and fleshed out into real languages). He also argued that in light of their pidgin birth, such languages are less grammatically complex than others, as the result of their recent birth as pidgins. These two claims have been highly controversial…
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- ISBN: 978-1-934078-40-2
- EAN: 9781934078402
- Produktnummer: 12814175
- Verlag: De Gruyter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 342 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 0 KB
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John H. McWhorter, New York, USA
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