The Missing Spanish Creoles - Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages (Electronic book text)


John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this provocative exploration of the origins of plantation creoles. Using a wealth of data--linguistic, sociolinguistic, historical--he proposes that the limited access model of creole genesis is seriously flawed.

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John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this provocative exploration of the origins of plantation creoles. Using a wealth of data--linguistic, sociolinguistic, historical--he proposes that the limited access model of creole genesis is seriously flawed.

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University of California Press

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United States

Release date

July 2000

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Electronic book text

Pages

292

ISBN-13

978-0-520-92349-2

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9780520923492

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0-520-92349-9



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