03737nam 22007812 450 991082483940332120240416172117.00-19-029040-40-19-772149-40-19-804441-01-280-53402-81-4237-2076-80-19-534723-41-4337-0085-910.1093/oso/9780195166699.001.0001(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(OCoLC)1406784464(StDuBDS)9780197721490(MiAaPQ)EBC4702161(EXLCZ)99100000000024556120041112e20232005 fy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDefining creole /John H. McWhorterNew York ;Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (435 pages)Oxford scholarship online.Previously issued in print: 2005.0-19-516669-8 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; ZCollecting 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.Oxford scholarship online.Creole dialectsGrammarCreole dialectsLexicologyCreole dialectsInflectionLinguistic changeCreole dialectsGrammar.Creole dialectsLexicology.Creole dialectsInflection.Linguistic change.417/.22McWhorter John H.885633StDuBDSStDuBDSStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910824839403321Defining creole4057236UNINA