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Spreading the word : the issue of diffusion among the Atlantic Creoles / edited by Magnus Huber & Mikael Parkvall.

Other author/creatorHuber, Magnus.
Other author/creatorParkvall, Mikael.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoLondon : University of Westminster Press, 1999.
Descriptioniv, 325 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Westminster Creolistics series ; 6
Westminster Creolistics series ; 6. ^A1450471
Contents A Creole by any other name: streamlining the terminology / John H. McWhorter -- Feature selection and genetic relationships among the Atlantic Creoles / Mikael Parkvall -- The Gold Coast contribution to the Atlantic English Creoles / Michael Aceto -- Atlantic English Creoles and the lower Guinea coast: a case against Afrogenesis / Magnus Huber -- The Afrogenesis hypothesis of plantation Creole origin / John H. McWhorter -- The structure of tense phrase in Creole languages: a case study (Krio) / Dudley K. Nylander -- Restructured Portuguese: from Africa to Brazil / Heliana Ribeiro de Mello -- The question of (prior) creolization in Brazil / Hildo Honório do Couto -- The origin of the Portuguese element in the Surinam Creoles / Jacques Arends -- The Pernambuco question? An examination of the nature and origin of the Portuguese elements in the Surinam Creoles / John Ladhams -- The role of Cayenne in the Pernambuco-Surinam hypothesis / William Jennings -- Pernambuco to Surinam 1654-1665? The Jewish slave controversy / Norval Smith -- Response to Norval Smith / John Ladhams -- A debate on Creole origins / Participants of the third Westminster Creolistics Workshop.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Spreading the word. London : University of Westminster Press, 1999
Genre/formKongress London 1996.
Genre/formHistory.
Genre/formCongresses (form)
Genre/formLondon (1996)
ISBN1859190936
ISBN9781859190937
Govt. docs number LNG3124

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