Creoles, Typology and Phylogenetics: Reconstructing Creole
Daval-Markussen, Aymeric
One of the peculiarities of the field of creole studies is that a majority of creolists are actually uncomfortable with the idea that the languages they study should constitute a separate class of languages and to date, no consensus on the matter has been reached.The main goal of this book is to investigate whether creoles represent a typologically coherent group of languages on the basis of a large body of empirical evidence using tools borro...