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John H. McWhorter, The missing Spanish creoles: Recovering the birth of plantation contact languages. Berkeley, Los Angeles, & London: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. ix + 281. Hb $45.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2002

Armin Schwegler
Armin Schwegler
Affiliation:
Spanish & Portuguese, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-5275, aschwegl@uci.edu
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Abstract

Meant to be challenging, controversial, and even radical, McWhorter's (McW) latest work on creole genesis may well be the most revisionist book on contact languages to appear since Bickerton's Roots of Language (1981) and Thomason and Kaufman's Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics (1988). It will therefore be required reading for anyone interested in the ongoing exploration of the origins of plantation creoles and of contact languages in general.

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Language in Society , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 113 - 121
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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