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Journal of Pidgin and Creole LanguagesVol. 12:2 (1997) ► pp.181–201
Relexification in Creole Genesis
The Case of Demonstrative Terms in Haitian Creole
The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, I present a formal representation of the process of relexification hypothesized to play a role in the formation of creole languages. Second, I show how this process operates on the basis of a subset of Haitian data.
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