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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1986.
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| Summary: | 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 reflect universal aspects of the human language capacity, and thus Creole genesis involves, then, the stripping away of the accretions of language history. The substrate hypothesis claims, on the other hand, that creole genesis results from the confrontation of two systems, the native languages of the c. |
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| Item Description: | 3. Double negation in Afrikaans. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (323 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789027279415 9027279411 1283328577 9781283328579 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |