What multiethnolects reveal about creole genesis

IF 0.5 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language Dynamics and Change Pub Date : 2019-08-08 DOI:10.1163/22105832-00902004

Jack E McWhorter

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Abstract

Recent theories of creole genesis propose that creole languages did not emerge via the expansion of pidgin varieties (DeGraff, 2001; Mufwene, 2001, 2008). This paper argues that the multiethnolects that have formed in many European cities constitute a demonstration case of the genesis scenario these new creolist theories reconstruct. Crucially, however, the multiethnolects, while displaying a modest degree of grammatical simplification and restructuring, exhibit this to nothing approaching the degree that creoles do. This supports the idea that creoles form from a break in transmission rather than simply hybridization.

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多民族揭示了克里奥尔语的起源

克里奥尔语起源的最新理论表明，克里奥尔语并不是通过洋泾浜品种的扩展而出现的（DeGraff，2001；Mufwene，20012008）。本文认为，在欧洲许多城市形成的多民族选择论构成了这些新的creolist理论重建的起源场景的一个示范案例。然而，至关重要的是，多民族选择论虽然表现出适度的语法简化和重组，但却没有表现出像克里奥尔语那样的程度。这支持了克里奥尔语是由传播中断而不是简单杂交形成的观点。

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期刊介绍： Language Dynamics and Change (LDC) is an international peer-reviewed journal that covers both new and traditional aspects of the study of language change. Work on any language or language family is welcomed, as long as it bears on topics that are also of theoretical interest. A particular focus is on new developments in the field arising from the accumulation of extensive databases of dialect variation and typological distributions, spoken corpora, parallel texts, and comparative lexicons, which allow for the application of new types of quantitative approaches to diachronic linguistics. Moreover, the journal will serve as an outlet for increasingly important interdisciplinary work on such topics as the evolution of language, archaeology and linguistics (‘archaeolinguistics’), human genetic and linguistic prehistory, and the computational modeling of language dynamics.