Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar: The Case of Haitian Creole (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521025386)

This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis: relexification, reanalysis, and direct leveling. The role of these processes is documented by a detailed comparison of Haitian creole with its two major contributing languages, French and Fongbe, to illustrate how mechanisms from source languages show themselves in creole. The author examines the input of adult, as opposed to child, speakers and resolves the problems in the three main approaches, universalist, superstratist and substratist, which have been central to the recent debate on creole development.

Author: Claire Lefebvre
ISBN-10: 0521025389
ISBN-13: 9780521025386
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2006
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.07d