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Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 32:1 (2017) ► pp.138–158
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Competition and selection in creole genesis

How ‘minimalist’ languages yield maximal output

| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Competition and selection: A view from acquisitionists, historical linguists, computational linguists and creolists
    • 2.1Bates and MacWhinney: Language acquisition as language competition
    • 2.2Lightfoot’s notion of competing I-grammars: A view from word order
    • 2.3 Roeper (1999) and universal bilingualism
    • 2.4 Yang (2002) and competing I-languages
    • 2.5 Mufwene (2001; 2008): Competition and selection in the feature pool
    • 2.6Summary
  • 3.Competition and selection in the formation of creole grammars
  • 4.The strengths and limitations of the competition and selection framework: Winford (2016)
  • Notes
  • Bibliography


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Published online: 23 June 2017
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