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Lefebvre, Claire – 1998
The research reported here focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis: relexification; reanalysis; dialect levelling; and parameter setting. The role of these processes in creole genesis is documented in a detailed comparison of Haitian Creole with two of its major source languages: French, its main lexifier language, and…
Descriptors: Affixes, African Languages, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
