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Publication details [#13732]

Bickerton, Derek. 1996. Creoles and the bankruptcy of current history theory. In Wekker, Herman C., ed. Creole languages and Language Acquisition. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 86). De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 33–43.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

creole | L1-acquisition | pidgin

Language as a subject

Creole, Hawai | Filipino | Japanese | Korean

Annotation

B. Claims that the very existence of creole languages poses a challenge to acquisition theory. In discussing Hawaiian creole he shows how a complete and quite complex rule system could arise from a pidgin in which there was complete anarchy.