03473nam 2200709 450 991078367850332120230617040842.00-19-772149-40-19-804441-01-280-53402-81-4237-2076-80-19-534723-41-4337-0085-9(CKB)1000000000245561(EBL)279818(OCoLC)559933424(SSID)ssj0000136153(PQKBManifestationID)11146217(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000136153(PQKBWorkID)10084696(PQKB)10746120(Au-PeEL)EBL4702161(CaPaEBR)ebr11273443(CaONFJC)MIL53402(OCoLC)962452636(MiAaPQ)EBC4702161(EXLCZ)99100000000024556120161012h20052005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDefining creole /John H. McWhorterOxford, [England] ;New York, New York :Oxford University Press,2005.©20051 online resource (435 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-516669-8 0-19-516670-1 Includes bibliographical references 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 Mesolect7. 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 EnglishNotesReferences; 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; ZGathers 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.Creole dialectsGrammarCreole dialectsLexicologyCreole dialectsInflectionLinguistic changeCreole dialectsGrammar.Creole dialectsLexicology.Creole dialectsInflection.Linguistic change.417/.22McWhorter John H.885633MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783678503321Defining creole3860726UNINA