Defining “creole” as a synchronic term

McWhorter, John H.

doi:10.1075/cll.22.07mcw

In:Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages
Edited by Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh and Edgar W. Schneider
[Creole Language Library 22] 2000
► pp. 85–124

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Defining “creole” as a synchronic term

John H. McWhorter

Published online: 12 February 2001

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