Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity : : Why Do Languages Undress? /

Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity : : Why Do Languages Undress? / / John H. McWhorter.

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In John McWhorter’s Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense. His publications since the 1990s have argued that all languages of the w...

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McWhorter, John H.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] , 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (332 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction The creole litmus test and the NCSL challenge
  • I Creole exceptionalism
  • Introduction to Section I
  • Chapter 1 The creole prototype revisited and revised
  • Chapter 2 Comparative complexity: What the creolist learns from Cantonese and Kabardian
  • Chapter 3 Reconstructing creole: Has “Creole Exceptionalism” been seriously engaged?
  • II Creole complexity
  • Introduction to Section II
  • Chapter 4 Oh, nɔɔ!: Emergent pragmatic marking from a bewilderingly multifunctional word
  • Chapter 5 Hither and thither in Saramaccan Creole
  • Chapter 6 Complexity hotspot: The copula in Saramaccan
  • III Exceptional language change elsewhere
  • Introduction to Section III
  • Chapter 7 Why does a language undress? The Riau Indonesian problem
  • Chapter 8 Affixless in Austronesian: Why Flores is a puzzle and what to do about it
  • Chapter 9 A brief for the Celtic hypothesis: English in Box 5?
  • References
  • Index

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