Review published in:
Substrate Influence in Creole Formation
Edited by Bettina Migge and Norval Smith
[Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22:1] 2007
► pp. 170–176
Book review

John McWhorter. Defining creole
John McWhorter. Oxford University Press, 2005. 351 pp. Hardback. $49.00

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| Universiteit van Amsterdam
Published online: 06 April 2007
https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.22.1.16ans
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