Substrata Versus Universals in Creole Genesis

Substrata Versus Universals in Creole Genesis
Author: Pieter Muysken
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027252211


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Two of the most prominent hypotheses about why the structures of the Creole languages of the Atlantic and the Pacific differ are the universalist and he substrate hypotheses. The universalist hypothesis claims, essentially, that the particular grammatical properties of Creole languages directly reflect universal aspects of the human language capacity, and thus Creole genesis involves, then, the stripping away of the accretions of language history. The substrate hypothesis claims, on the other hand, that creole genesis results from the confrontation of two systems, the native languages of the colonized groups, and the dominant colonial language, and that the native language leaves strong traces in the resulting Creole. The contributions of this ground breaking collection present new and historical research on the old debate of substrata versus universals in Creole languages.


Substrata Versus Universals in Creole Genesis
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Pieter Muysken
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Two of the most prominent hypotheses about why the structures of the Creole languages of the Atlantic and the Pacific differ are the universalist and he substra
Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis
Language: en
Pages: 325
Authors: Pieter Muysken
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Two of the most prominent hypotheses about why the structures of the Creole languages of the Atlantic and the Pacific differ are the universalist and he substra
Reconciling Universalists and Substratists
Language: en
Pages: 30
Authors: Franziska Buch
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11-04 - Publisher: GRIN Verlag

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Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1,3, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Anglistik/Amerikanis
Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar
Language: en
Pages: 480
Authors: Claire Lefebvre
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-21 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Language: en
Pages: 430
Authors: John R. Rickford
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-12-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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