Book review
. Bastard tongues: A trailblazing linguist finds clues to our common humanity in the world’s lowliest languages Derek Bickerton. New York: Hill and Wang, 2008. 270 pp. Hardback. $ 26.00 To order, visit. http://us.macmillan.com/HillAndWang.aspx
Reviewed by
Edgar W. Schneider | University of Regensburg
Published online: 24 March 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.24.1.16sch
https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.24.1.16sch
References
Bickerton, Derek
(1981) Roots of language. Ann Arbor: Karoma.
Roberts, Sarah Julianne
(2000) “Nativization and the genesis of Hawaiian Creole.” Language change and language contact in pidgins and creoles, ed. by John McWhorter, 257–300. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 