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McWhorter, John H. 2018. Why neither demographics nor feature pools can explain the missing Spanish plantation creoles. Lingua 202 : 4–12.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Theories that estate creoles were all born as pidgins at West African coast slave castles have not fared well amid creolists, among a predilection for presuming that creoles are born, or not, according to factors local to a given context. This article indicates why, particularly in light of inquiry since, the “Afrogenesis” paradigm still deserves earnest deliberation.