Creoles as interlanguages: Syntactic structures

Plag, Ingo

doi:10.1075/jpcl.23.2.06pla

Article published In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 23:2 (2008) ► pp.307–328

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Creoles as interlanguages

Syntactic structures

Ingo Plag | Universität Siegen

Published online: 17 September 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.23.2.06pla

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