0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure

Buy Now

The Creole Debate (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,489
Discovery Miles 14 890
You Save: R196 (12%)
The Creole Debate (Hardcover): John H. McWhorter

The Creole Debate (Hardcover)

John H. McWhorter

 (sign in to rate)
List price R1,685 Loot Price R1,489 Discovery Miles 14 890 | Repayment Terms: R140 pm x 12* You Save R196 (12%)

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and what their political and linguistic status should be. Indeed, over the past twenty years, some creole specialists have argued that it has been wrong to think of creoles as anything but language blends in the same way that Yiddish is a blend of German and Hebrew and Slavic. Here, John H. McWhorter debunks the most widely accepted idea that creoles are created in the same way as 'children', taking characteristics from both 'parent' languages, and its underlying assumption that all historical and biological processes are the same. Instead, the facts support the original, and more interesting, argument that creoles are their own unique entity and are among the world's only genuinely new languages.

General

Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2018
Authors: John H. McWhorter
Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-42864-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
Promotions
LSN: 1-108-42864-9
Barcode: 9781108428644

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Become A Better Writer - How To Write…
Donald Powers, Greg Rosenberg Paperback R245 R226 Discovery Miles 2 260
Syntax: A Generative Introduction 4e and…
A Carnie Paperback R2,071 Discovery Miles 20 710
Smuggling in Syntax
Adriana Belletti, Chris Collins Hardcover R3,132 Discovery Miles 31 320
English Vocabulary Elements - A Course…
William R. Leben, Brett Kessler, … Hardcover R2,495 Discovery Miles 24 950
Anti-contiguity - A Theory of Wh…
Jason Kandybowicz Hardcover R2,480 Discovery Miles 24 800
The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics
Yan Huang Hardcover R4,629 Discovery Miles 46 290
Parameters of Predicate Fronting
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Dennis Ott Hardcover R3,599 Discovery Miles 35 990
The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and…
Mary A. Kato, Francisco Ordonez Hardcover R3,844 Discovery Miles 38 440
The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in…
Eleanor Coghill Hardcover R4,952 Discovery Miles 49 520
The Grammar of Romanian
Gabriela Pana Dindelegan Hardcover R5,650 Discovery Miles 56 500
Constructionalization and Constructional…
Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Graeme Trousdale Hardcover R4,481 Discovery Miles 44 810
The Development of Old English
Don Ringe, Ann Taylor Hardcover R5,072 Discovery Miles 50 720

See more

Partners