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008			180728s2018 enka b 001 0 eng d
010			_a 2017278011
020			_a9781108450836 (paperback)
020			_a9781108428644 (hardcover)
020			_a1108428649 (hardcover)
020			_a1108450830 (paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)on1013971789
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050	0	0	_aPM7831 _b.M364 2018
082	0	4	_a417.22 McW-J _223
100	1		_aMcWhorter, John H., _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe creole debate / _cJohn H. McWhorter, Columbia University, New York.
260			_aUK _bCambridge _c2018
300			_avi, 173 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
365			_aGBP _b17.99
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 150-164) and index.
520			_aCreoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and on what their political and linguistic status should be. Indeed, over the past twenty years, some creole specialists have argued that it has been wrong to think of creoles as anything but language blends in the same way that Yiddish is a blend of German and Hebrew and Slavic. Here, John H. McWhorter debunks the idea that creoles are created in the same way as "children," taking characteristics from both "parent" languages, and its underlying assumption that all historical and biological processes are the same. Instead, the facts support the original, and more interesting, argument that creoles are their own unique entity and are among the world's only genuinely new languages.
650		0	_aCreole dialects.
650		0	_aLanguages in contact.
650		7	_aCreole languages. _2idszbzes
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955			_brn05 2018-07-28 _are12 2018-08-01 reviewed _bxk15 2018-08-09 z-processor _ixk29 2018-08-27 to CALM