The Missing Spanish Creoles

Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages

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John McWhorter

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John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this exploration of the origins of plantation creole. Using various data - linguistic, sociolinguistic, historical - he proposes that the "limited access model" of creole genesis is seriously flawed. That model maintains that plantation creole languages emerged because African slaves greatly out-numbered whites on colonial plantations. Having little access to the slaveholders' European languages, the slaves were forced to build a new language from what fragments they did acquire. Not so, says McWhorter, who posits that plantation creole originated in West African trade settlements, in interactions between white traders and slaves, some of whom were eventually transported overseas. The evidence that most New World creoles were imports traceable to West Africa strongly suggests that the well-established limited access model for plantation creole needs revision.

Author Biography:

John H. McWhorter is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis (1997), The Word on the Street: Fact and Fable about American English (1998), and Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America (1999).

Release date NZ

July 3rd, 2000

Author

John McWhorter

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

38 tables

Pages

292

Dimensions

152x229x25

ISBN-13

9780520219991

Product ID

7698810

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