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creole prototype: a standalone construct

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Contact linguistics

claim that creoles can be identified by the joint absence of inflectional affixes, tone and noncompositional derivation.

In contact linguistics, creole prototype refers to claim that creoles can be identified by the joint absence of inflectional affixes, tone and noncompositional derivation. This meaning comes from McWhorter (1998) in Language.[1]

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contact2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs derivation3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs joint2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

McWhorter, J. H. (1998). Identifying the Creole Prototype: Vindicating a Typological Class. Language, 74(4), 788-818. https://doi.org/10.2307/417003

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