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- Title
Why Haitian is a creole, Michif an intertwiner, and Irish English neither: a reply to Mufwene.
- Authors
Parkvall, Mikael; Jacobs, Bart
- Abstract
The article discusses the debate on the ontological status of creoles and mixed languages by analyzing the Berbice Dutch language formation underlying assumptions of the two-stage genesis scenario proposed by the authors. Topics include differences between traditional languages and contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, and intertwined languages; and consequence of prior pidginhood resulting in a relative lack of grammatical complexity compared to traditional languages.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language; ONTOLOGY; CREOLE dialects; CREOLES; HAITIANS; MIXED languages; DUTCH Creole dialects; IDEOLOGY; AFRICAN languages; PIDGIN languages; COMPARATIVE grammar; LINGUISTIC typology
- Publication
Folia Linguistica, 2023, Vol 57, Issue 1, p217
- ISSN
0165-4004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/flin-2023-2002