Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress?

by John McWhorter

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934078395
• ISBN13: 9781934078396
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary