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Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress?: 1 - Rilegato

Libro 1 di 17: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]

John H. McWhorter

 
9781934078372: Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress?: 1
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ISBN 10: 1934078379 ISBN 13: 9781934078372
Casa editrice: Mouton de Gruyter, 2011

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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 world that lack a certain three traits together are creoles (i.e. born as pidgins a few hundred years ago and fleshed out into real languages). He also argued that in light of their pidgin birth, such languages are less grammatically complex than others, as the result of their recent birth as pidgins. These two claims have been highly controversial among creolists as well as other linguists.

In this volume, Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity, McWhorter gathers articles he has written since then, in the wake of responses from a wide range of creolists and linguists. These articles represent a considerable divergence in direction from his earlier work.

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John H. McWhorter, New York, USA

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Editore
Mouton de Gruyter
Data di pubblicazione
2011
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1934078379
ISBN 13 
9781934078372
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
332
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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