LEADER 03737nam 22007812 450 001 9910824839403321 005 20240416172117.0 010 $a0-19-029040-4 010 $a0-19-772149-4 010 $a0-19-804441-0 010 $a1-280-53402-8 010 $a1-4237-2076-8 010 $a0-19-534723-4 010 $a1-4337-0085-9 024 7 $a10.1093/oso/9780195166699.001.0001 035 $a(CKB)1000000000245561 035 $a(EBL)279818 035 $a(OCoLC)559933424 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000136153 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11146217 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000136153 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10084696 035 $a(PQKB)10746120 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4702161 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11273443 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL53402 035 $a(OCoLC)962452636 035 $a(OCoLC)1406784464 035 $a(StDuBDS)9780197721490 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4702161 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000245561 100 $a20041112e20232005 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDefining creole /$fJohn H. McWhorter 210 1$aNew York ;$cOxford University Press,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (435 pages) 225 1 $aOxford scholarship online. 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2005. 311 $a0-19-516669-8 311 $a0-19-516670-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Mesolect 327 $a7. 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 English 327 $aNotesReferences; 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; Z 330 8 $aCollecting recent work by John H. McWhorter on creole languages & their origins, this volume showcases many of his novel & controversial theories, including the claim that the differences between creoles & their source languages is much more than a matter of inflection. 410 0$aOxford scholarship online. 606 $aCreole dialects$xGrammar 606 $aCreole dialects$xLexicology 606 $aCreole dialects$xInflection 606 $aLinguistic change 615 0$aCreole dialects$xGrammar. 615 0$aCreole dialects$xLexicology. 615 0$aCreole dialects$xInflection. 615 0$aLinguistic change. 676 $a417/.22 700 $aMcWhorter$b John H.$0885633 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824839403321 996 $aDefining creole$94057236 997 $aUNINA