The worlds simplest grammars are creole grammars

By J. Mcwhorter. 2001

460 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cultural Studies, Language and Linguistics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/460798b73f9764f2ae09eaffe97aabc6cbdf6dff

How researchers see this paper

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In Cultural Studies

1. D. Larsen-Freeman
2. Nick C. Ellis

In Language and Linguistics

1. D. Larsen-Freeman
2. Nick C. Ellis
3. Scott Andrew Crossley
4. K. Kyle
5. N. Schmitt
6. Z. Dörnyei
7. Ute Römer
8. N. Vyatkina

Citations in the corpus

• The Dynamics of Second Language Emergence: Cycles of Language Use, Language Change, and Language Acquisition (2008, background): “Stasis allows a language, left to its own devices, to develop historical baggage— linguistic overgrowths that, however interesting, are strictly incidental to the needs of human exchange and expression (McWhorter, 2001, 2002, 2004).”
• Language emergence: Implications for applied linguistics - Introduction to the special issue (2006, background): “Creoles typically have little or no inflection, they have little or no tone distinguishing words or expressing grammar, and their prefix/suffix þ root combinations are semantically predictable (McWhorter 2001, 2002: ch. 5).”