Creoles, Their Substrates, and Language Typology

Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For example, creole languages typologically pair with their superstrate languages (Chaudenson 2003), with their substrate languages (Lefebvre 1998), or even,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027206767
• ISBN13: 9789027206763
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 626 Pages