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DeGraff, Michel (ed.), Language creation and language change: Creolization, diachrony and development. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. Pp x + 573. Hb $65.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2002

Liliane Haegeman
Liliane Haegeman
Affiliation:
UFR Angellier, Université Charles de Gaulle Lille III, Domaine universitaire du Pont de Bois, BP 149, F-59653 Villeneuve d'Asq Cedex, France, Haegeman@univ-lille3.fr
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Abstract

As the title suggests, the collection under review focuses on two related issues in current linguistic research: language change – with emphasis on diachronic syntax – and what seems to be the more elusive question of “language creation” as instantiated in Creole genesis. The central empirical domain of the latter inquiry, creolization, constitutes the link between the contributions, which are all written against a coherent, broadly generative theoretical background.

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REVIEWS
Information
Language in Society , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 304 - 307
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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