The Creole Debate

Name: The Creole Debate
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108428644
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ISBN: 9781108428644

by John H. McWhorter

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1108428649

ISBN-13 9781108428644

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 17th, 2018

Print length 178 Pages

Weight 390 grams

Dimensions 23.40 x 15.70 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Historical & comparative linguistics Historical and comparative linguistics Grammar, syntax & morphology Grammar, syntax and morphology

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Creole specialists have long argued that it is wrong to think of creoles as anything but language blends, in the same way that Yiddish is a blend of German, Hebrew and Slavic. This book debunks this idea, and presents the compelling argument that creoles are in fact among the world's only genuinely new languages.

Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and what their political and linguistic status should be. Indeed, over the past twenty years, some creole specialists have argued that it has been wrong to think of creoles as anything but language blends in the same way that Yiddish is a blend of German and Hebrew and Slavic. Here, John H. McWhorter debunks the most widely accepted idea that creoles are created in the same way as 'children', taking characteristics from both 'parent' languages, and its underlying assumption that all historical and biological processes are the same. Instead, the facts support the original, and more interesting, argument that creoles are their own unique entity and are among the world's only genuinely new languages.

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