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From: seumas@vnet.ibm.com (James Walker)
Subject: Re: Esperanto and creole??
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Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 20:03:24 GMT
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In <3ok4ro$1niu@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, wolfkir@ibm.net writes:
>Creole is both "a language" (usually caribbean french or caribbean spanish or... 
>---it seems to depend in who' using the word)
>and a type of language. See David Becekerton's work on the concept and the
>phenomenon.
It's Derek Bickerton, and he has several works, most notably _Roots of Language_
(1981) and _Language and Species_ (1990?).  But Bickerton's definition of creoles
is not universally accepted.  See Peter Mu:hlha:usler's _Pidgin and Creole Linguistics_	
(1986) and John Holm's two-volume _Pidgins and Creoles_ (1988-1990).	

James
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James Walker, Toronto Information Development, IBM Canada
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