Table of Contents: Defining creole /

Main Author:	McWhorter, John H.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:	Creole dialects > Grammar. Creole dialects > Lexicology. Creole dialects > Inflection. Linguistic change. Langues créoles > Grammaire. Langues créoles > Lexicologie. Langues créoles > Flexion. Changement linguistique. FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Creole Languages.
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Table of 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 Mesolect.