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Identifying the Creole Prototype: Vindicating a Typological Class.

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McWhorter, John H. – Language, 1998

Outlines three features that render creoles synchronically distinguishable from other languages, all three clear results of a break in transmission followed by a development period too brief for the traits to be undone as they have been in older languages. Shows that an expanded data set reveals flaws in the socio-historical argumentation behind…

Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Classification

A Structural Principle of Language and Its Implications

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Lehmann, W. P. – Language, 1973

Research on which portions of this study are based was performed under a National Science Foundation Grant and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. (VM)

Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Classification, Language Patterns, Language Typology