The Domestic Hypothesis, Diffusion and Componentiality. An Account of Atlantic Anglophone Creole Origins

Hancock, Ian F.

doi:10.1075/cll.1.06han

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. 71–102

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The Domestic Hypothesis, Diffusion and Componentiality. An Account of Atlantic Anglophone Creole Origins

Ian F. Hancock

Published online: 1 January 1986

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