Relexification in Creole Genesis: The Case of Demonstrative Terms in Haitian Creole

Lefebvre, Claire

doi:10.1075/jpcl.12.2.02lef

Article published In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 12:2 (1997) ► pp.181–201

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Relexification in Creole Genesis

The Case of Demonstrative Terms in Haitian Creole

Claire Lefebvre | Université du Québec à Montréal

Published online: 1 January 1997

https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.12.2.02lef

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, I present a formal representation of the process of relexification hypothesized to play a role in the formation of creole languages. Second, I show how this process operates on the basis of a subset of Haitian data.

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