A controversial new analysis of the development of New World creole languages among slaves. Mc Whorter makes a vast amount of new data available in his book, and posits that New World creole languages developed in West Africa, not on the plantations in the New World.
| Autor: | McWhorter, John |
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| ISBN: | 9780520219991 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | University of California Press |
| Veröffentlicht: | 03.07.2000 |
| Untertitel: | Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages |
John H. McWhorter is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis (1997), The Word on the Street: Fact and Fable about American English (1998), and Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America (1999).