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Publication details [#30236]

McWhorter, John H. 1996. A deep breath and a second wind: The substrate hypothesis reassessed. Anthropological Linguistics 38 (3) : 461–494.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

creole | language change | language contact | language origins

Language as a subject

Languages, West African | Saramaccan | Sranan

Place, Publisher

Indiana University

ISBN

0003-5483

Annotation

This paper on substrate transfer in creoles, demonstrates that developmental accounts of the Saramaccan creole must take into account both creators of Saramaccan itself, and West-African influences transferred into pre-existent Sranan.