Re: Fluency Wish-List (and question)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 14, 2000, 10:07 |
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At 16:33 13.4.2000 -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
>You may already know this, but the best authority on pidgins/creoles is Derek
>Bickerton (Hawaii, or maybe retired by now). At least one book and no doubt
>many articles. _Oceanic Linguistics_ might have things by him or his
>followers-- it's on line at the U.Hawaii/Linguistics website (index only for
>most past issues).
>IIRC, the sequence in This world is: pidgin > creole
That's the sequence, according to all but Bickerton. His hypothesis is
actually quite controversial.
Check out:
http://www.ling.su.se/Creole/Archive/Eklund-1.html
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
<mailto:melroch@...>melroch@my-deja.com
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