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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454813403321

Autore

McWhorter John H

Titolo

The missing Spanish creoles [[electronic resource] ] : recovering the birth of plantation contact languages / / John H. McWhorter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2000

ISBN

0-520-92349-9

1-59734-756-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Disciplina

467/.9729

Soggetti

Creole dialects - Caribbean Area - History

Pidgin languages - History

Black people - Africa, West - Languages

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-263) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Where Are The Spanish Creoles?; 3. The Atlantic English-based Creoles; 4. The Creationist at a Cocktail Party; 5. Off the Plantation for Good; 6. Synthesis; 7. Conclusion; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this provocative exploration of the origins of plantation creoles. Using a wealth of data--linguistic, sociolinguistic, historical--he proposes that the ""limited access model"" of creole genesis is seriously flawed.