Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis : Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985.

Two of the most prominent hypotheses about why the structures of the Creole languages of the Atlantic and the Pacific differ are the universalist and he substrate hypotheses. The universalist hypothesis claims, essentially, that the particular grammatical properties of Creole languages directly refl...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Muysken, Pieter
Other Authors:	Smith, Norval
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986.