Publications

Publication details [#13739]

Lefebvre, Claire. 1996. The functional category 'agreement' and creole genesis. In Wekker, Herman C., ed. Creole languages and Language Acquisition. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 86). De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 153–183.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

creole | grammar1

Language as a subject

Creole, Haitian | Fon | French

Annotation

This paper reports on an ongoing project which seeks to test the theory that Haitian Creole was created through relexification. The general approach lies in a detailed comparison of the grammar of Haitian Creole and the grammar of its source languages, French and Fon.