Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity | Why Do Languages Undress?
John H. Mcwhorter
ISBN 10: 1934078395 ISBN 13: 9781934078396
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Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity | Why Do Languages Undress? | John H. Mcwhorter | Taschenbuch | X | Englisch | 2012 | De Gruyter | EAN 9781934078396 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Str. 13, 10785 Berlin, productsafety[at]degruyterbrill[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. Seller Inventory # 106471361
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In John McWhorter's Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense. His publicationssince the 1990s have argued that all languages of the world that lack a certain three traits together are creoles (i.e. born as pidgins a few hundred years ago and fleshed out into real languages). He also argued that in light of their pidgin birth, such languages are less grammatically complex than others, as the result of their recent birth as pidgins. These two claims have been highly controversial among creolists as well as other linguists. In this volume,Linguistic Simplicityand Complexity,McWhorter gathers articles he has written since then, in the wake of responses from a wide range of creolists and linguists. These articles represent a considerable divergence in direction from his earlier work.
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Title: Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity | Why ...
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication Date: 2012
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