Review of Synchronic and diachronic perspectives on contact languages. Edited by Magnus Huber & Viveka Velupellai (2007). Creole Language Library, Vol. 32. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Let me start by quoting the provocative last sentence of the last paper in this volume, which questions “(…) the very validity of the field of Linguistics called Creole and the validity of a categorisation of a group of the languages of the world under a rubric creole.” (Ferreira and Alleyne, p. 352...
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Open Library of Humanities
2008-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Portuguese Linguistics |
| Online Access: | http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/136 |