Search results for “[Subject: creole-languages]”

• Author(s): John McWhorter • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeA conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: ...

• Author(s): John McWhorter | Jeff Good • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeSaramaccan has been central to various debates regarding the origin and nature of cre...

• Author(s): John McWhorter • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeSaramaccan has been central to various debates regarding the origin and nature of creole language...

• Author(s): John McWhorter • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralJohn McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this provocative explorati...

• Author(s): John McWhorter • Publisher: MixIG • Publisher Imprint: MixIG • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & Comparative"An essay in origins ... as theoretical as Hawking and Gorst in trying to see into the deep past...

• Author(s): John McWhorter • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsA love letter to languages, celebrating their curiosities and smashing assumptions about correct gramm...

• Author(s): John McWhorter • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralForeigners often say that English language is "easy." A language like Spanish is challenging in ...

• Author(s): John McWhorter • Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press • Publisher Imprint: Bellevue Literary Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Sociolinguistics"Superb." --Steven Pinker"An explanation, a defense, and, most heartening, a celebration. . . . M...