Publications
Publication details [#13740]
Lumsden, John S. 1996. On the acquisition of nominal structures in the genesis of Haitian Creole. In Wekker, Herman C., ed. Creole languages and Language Acquisition. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 86). De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 185–205. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Annotation
Comparing creole grammar with the grammars of the source languages to which it is historically related offers the possibility of observing the results of drastic linguistic changes in a relatively unusual context. Nominal structures in Haitian Creole are compared with French and Fon.