Defining Creole

by John McWhorter

Book Overview

A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a language usually under conditions of subordination, but that structurally they are indistinguishable from other languages. The articles by John H. McWhorter collected in this volume demonstrate that this is in fact untrue.

Creole languages, while complex and nuanced as all...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195166698
• ISBN13: 9780195166699
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"