This volume gathers the last ten years worth of published articles on creole languages and their origins by John H. McWhorter, a unique and often controversial scholar in the field. The articles fall into roughly three categories: defending his hypothesis that creole languages are synchronically distinguishable from older grammars, addressing the intersection between creole genesis and language change, and lastly countering the accepted argument that creoles' differences from their source languages (called lexifiers) are simply a matter of inflection. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of creole and pidgin studies, and lingustics more broadly.
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"This book is a welcome addition to the linguistic literature on creole languages and is sure to provide the fodder for many a lively discusiion."--Kathe Managan, University of Michigan
"McWhorter is very good at teasing out both the small, and major, inconsistencies in our long-held assumptions about creoles and language change and whether we agree with him or not, he often shakes us out of our comfortable complacency over unchallenged issues. He's the 800 pound gorilla in the room. You may not want to hear him, but he's hard to ignore."--Linguist List
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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John H. McWhorter is at University of California, Berkeley.
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This idea, however, has rarely been subjected to close scrutiny from a typological perspective. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inflectional parameter, morphosyntactic tone, creole genesis theory, creolist work, low frequency rendering, rich agreement hypothesis, inflectional loss, creole creators, claim that creoles, inflectional affixation, intertwined languages, grammatical gender marking, creole prototype, predicate negator, reflexive marking, equative copula, identificational sentences, trigger marking, locative copula, continuum creoles, lexifier language, creole continua, inherent reflexives, possessive marking, phonetic erosion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Black English, West African, Old English, Tok Pisin, Old Norse, Haitian Creole, Creolist Hypothesis, United States, Mainland Scandinavian, Atlantic English-based, Polysynthesis Parameter, Cape Verdean, Sao Tomense, Media Lengua, Modern English, Founder Principle, Middle English, Riau Indonesian, Sao Tomé, South Carolina, Hawaiian Creole English, Nova Scotia, African American, Berbice Dutch, Eastern Ijo New!
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inflectional parameter, morphosyntactic tone, creole genesis theory, creolist work, low frequency rendering, rich agreement hypothesis, inflectional loss, creole creators, claim that creoles, inflectional affixation, intertwined languages, grammatical gender marking, creole prototype, predicate negator, reflexive marking, equative copula, identificational sentences, trigger marking, locative copula, continuum creoles, lexifier language, creole continua, inherent reflexives, possessive marking, phonetic erosion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Black English, West African, Old English, Tok Pisin, Old Norse, Haitian Creole, Creolist Hypothesis, United States, Mainland Scandinavian, Atlantic English-based, Polysynthesis Parameter, Cape Verdean, Sao Tomense, Media Lengua, Modern English, Founder Principle, Middle English, Riau Indonesian, Sao Tomé, South Carolina, Hawaiian Creole English, Nova Scotia, African American, Berbice Dutch, Eastern Ijo New!
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- Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America by John McWhorter in Front Matter
- What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty by John Brockman on page 68
- The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter in Back Matter
- Norwegian Modals (Studies in Generative Grammar) by Kristin Melum Eide in Back Matter
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