Semantic Transparency as a Factor in Creole Genesis

Seuren, Pieter A.M.; Wekker, Herman

doi:10.1075/cll.1.05seu

In:Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985
Edited by Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith
[Creole Language Library 1] 1986
► pp. 57–70

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Semantic Transparency as a Factor in Creole Genesis

Pieter A.M. Seuren

Herman Wekker

Published online: 1 January 1986

https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.1.05seu

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