John H Mcwhorter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 542532 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John H Mcwhorter |
| NOMBRES | John H |
| APELLIDO | Mcwhorter |
| FIRMA | MCWHORTER J H |
| AFILIACIONES | Columbia University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Functional categories in three Atlantic creoles
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Creoles and sociolinguistic complexity
In an earlier article in this journal, Umberto Ansaldo states that creoles are sociolinguistically the most complex of languages, equalled only by the situation in South India. In our article we show that this claim is not supported by facts about global multilingualism, creole societies, creole language structures and theories of language contact. The vast majority of the world’s population is multilingual: the average human speaks almost two la…
Why neither demographics nor feature pools can explain the missing Spanish plantation creoles
The Iberian Challenge
Creole languages lexified by Spanish and Portuguese have played a relatively small role in theories of creole genesis. This volume argues that there is not a priori reason to give English and French-based plantation creoles a preferential treatment, but shows that Iberian-based creoles demonstrate a diversity of complex circumstances that any overarching theory of creole genesis ought to take into account.
Long Time, No Song
Just before he died in 1943, Fats Waller wrote the music for a Broadway book musical with a mostly white cast, the first black composer to do so–and the only one ever to do it with commercial success. Yet “Early to Bed” is largely ignored by historians of musical theater, while jazz scholars describe the circumstances surrounding its composition rather than the work itself. Encouraging this neglect is the fact that no actual score survives. This …
What else happened to English? A brief for the Celtic hypothesis
This article argues that despite traditional skepticism among most specialists on the history of English that Brythonic Celtic languages could have had any significant structural impact on English's evolution, the source of periphrastic do in Cornish's equivalent construction is virtually impossible to deny on the basis of a wide range of evidence. That Welsh and Cornish borrowed the construction from English is impossible given its presence in B…
All about the Beat
Language Interrupted
Foreigners often say that the English language is "easy". A language like Spanish is challenging in its variety of verb endings and gender for nouns, whereas English is more straightforward. But linguists generally deny claims that certain languages are 'easier' than others, since it is assumed that all languages are complex to the same degree. For example, they will point to English's use of the word "do" - Do you know French? This usage is coun…
Defining Creole
Abstract A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a language usually under conditions of subordination, but that structurally they are indistinguishable from other languages. The articles by John H. McWhorter collected in this volume demonstrate that this is in fact untrue. Creole languages, while complex and nuanced as …
Defining Creole
What people ask David Gil and why
Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles
This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly argue for controversial positions. The papers demonstrate how pidgins and creoles shed light on issues such as verb movement, contact-induced language c…
Language change and language contact in pidgins and creoles
Losing the Race
Is school a white thing? If not, then why do African-American students from comfortable middle-class backgrounds perform so badly in the classroom? What is it that prevents so many black college students in the humanities and social sciences from studying anything other than black subjects? Why do young black people, born decades after the heyday of the Civil Rights movement, see victimhood as the defining element of their existence? In this expl…
Identifying the Creole Prototype
An increasingly influential current in creole studies considers there to have been no appreciable break in transmission or simplification in the birth of creole languages, instead treating creoles as gradual, relatively nondisruptive developments of their lexifiers amidst conditions of heavy language contact. Central to this superstratist view is the claim that creole is a sociohistorical, but not synchronic, term. This article outlines three fea…
Wasting Energy on an Illusion
Wasting Energy on an Illusion
English is often made with lists of Black English traits. However, while Black English is indeed systematic, it is not different enough from standard English the cause of the alarming reading scores among black children. 2. Black English is not an language with English words in any sense. Caribbean creoles like Jamaican patois are real African English; Black English is simply one of many kinds of American English. Most Black English sound and sen…
The scarcity of Spanish-based creoles explained
Most explanations for the scarcity of Spanish-based creoles have appealed to sociological factors. This article shows that, on the contrary, three historical factors determined the current distribution. First, the Spanish only began cultivating sugar after a century of concentrating on crops requiring smaller plantations; this allowed fuller acquisition of Spanish by the slaves, who then served as models for later arrivals. Second, the Spanish of…
Identifying the Creole Prototype
An increasingly influential current in creole studies considers there to have been no appreciable break in transmission or simplification in the birth of creole languages, instead treating creoles as gradual, relatively nondisruptive developments of their lexifiers amidst conditions of heavy language contact. Central to this superstratist view is the claim that creole is a sociohistorical, but not synchronic, term. This article outlines three fea…
Language Interrupted
Foreigners often say that the English language is "easy". A language like Spanish is challenging in its variety of verb endings and gender for nouns, whereas English is more straightforward. But linguists generally deny claims that certain languages are 'easier' than others, since it is assumed that all languages are complex to the same degree. For example, they will point to English's use of the word "do" - Do you know French? This usage is coun…
The scarcity of Spanish-based creoles explained
Most explanations for the scarcity of Spanish-based creoles have appealed to sociological factors. This article shows that, on the contrary, three historical factors determined the current distribution. First, the Spanish only began cultivating sugar after a century of concentrating on crops requiring smaller plantations; this allowed fuller acquisition of Spanish by the slaves, who then served as models for later arrivals. Second, the Spanish of…
Wasting Energy on an Illusion
Wasting Energy on an Illusion
English is often made with lists of Black English traits. However, while Black English is indeed systematic, it is not different enough from standard English the cause of the alarming reading scores among black children. 2. Black English is not an language with English words in any sense. Caribbean creoles like Jamaican patois are real African English; Black English is simply one of many kinds of American English. Most Black English sound and sen…
Creoles and sociolinguistic complexity
In an earlier article in this journal, Umberto Ansaldo states that creoles are sociolinguistically the most complex of languages, equalled only by the situation in South India. In our article we show that this claim is not supported by facts about global multilingualism, creole societies, creole language structures and theories of language contact. The vast majority of the world’s population is multilingual: the average human speaks almost two la…
Why neither demographics nor feature pools can explain the missing Spanish plantation creoles
The scarcity of Spanish-based creoles explained
Most explanations for the scarcity of Spanish-based creoles have appealed to sociological factors. This article shows that, on the contrary, three historical factors determined the current distribution. First, the Spanish only began cultivating sugar after a century of concentrating on crops requiring smaller plantations; this allowed fuller acquisition of Spanish by the slaves, who then served as models for later arrivals. Second, the Spanish of…
Wasting Energy on an Illusion
Wasting Energy on an Illusion
English is often made with lists of Black English traits. However, while Black English is indeed systematic, it is not different enough from standard English the cause of the alarming reading scores among black children. 2. Black English is not an language with English words in any sense. Caribbean creoles like Jamaican patois are real African English; Black English is simply one of many kinds of American English. Most Black English sound and sen…
Identifying the Creole Prototype
An increasingly influential current in creole studies considers there to have been no appreciable break in transmission or simplification in the birth of creole languages, instead treating creoles as gradual, relatively nondisruptive developments of their lexifiers amidst conditions of heavy language contact. Central to this superstratist view is the claim that creole is a sociohistorical, but not synchronic, term. This article outlines three fea…
Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles
This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly argue for controversial positions. The papers demonstrate how pidgins and creoles shed light on issues such as verb movement, contact-induced language c…
Language change and language contact in pidgins and creoles
Losing the Race
Is school a white thing? If not, then why do African-American students from comfortable middle-class backgrounds perform so badly in the classroom? What is it that prevents so many black college students in the humanities and social sciences from studying anything other than black subjects? Why do young black people, born decades after the heyday of the Civil Rights movement, see victimhood as the defining element of their existence? In this expl…
What people ask David Gil and why
Defining Creole
Abstract A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a language usually under conditions of subordination, but that structurally they are indistinguishable from other languages. The articles by John H. McWhorter collected in this volume demonstrate that this is in fact untrue. Creole languages, while complex and nuanced as …
Defining Creole
Language Interrupted
Foreigners often say that the English language is "easy". A language like Spanish is challenging in its variety of verb endings and gender for nouns, whereas English is more straightforward. But linguists generally deny claims that certain languages are 'easier' than others, since it is assumed that all languages are complex to the same degree. For example, they will point to English's use of the word "do" - Do you know French? This usage is coun…
All about the Beat
What else happened to English? A brief for the Celtic hypothesis
This article argues that despite traditional skepticism among most specialists on the history of English that Brythonic Celtic languages could have had any significant structural impact on English's evolution, the source of periphrastic do in Cornish's equivalent construction is virtually impossible to deny on the basis of a wide range of evidence. That Welsh and Cornish borrowed the construction from English is impossible given its presence in B…
Long Time, No Song
Just before he died in 1943, Fats Waller wrote the music for a Broadway book musical with a mostly white cast, the first black composer to do so–and the only one ever to do it with commercial success. Yet “Early to Bed” is largely ignored by historians of musical theater, while jazz scholars describe the circumstances surrounding its composition rather than the work itself. Encouraging this neglect is the fact that no actual score survives. This …
The Iberian Challenge
Creole languages lexified by Spanish and Portuguese have played a relatively small role in theories of creole genesis. This volume argues that there is not a priori reason to give English and French-based plantation creoles a preferential treatment, but shows that Iberian-based creoles demonstrate a diversity of complex circumstances that any overarching theory of creole genesis ought to take into account.
Functional categories in three Atlantic creoles
Preview this article: Functional categories in three Atlantic creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu. By Claire Lefebvre, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/jpcl.00010.mcw-1.gif
Creoles and sociolinguistic complexity
In an earlier article in this journal, Umberto Ansaldo states that creoles are sociolinguistically the most complex of languages, equalled only by the situation in South India. In our article we show that this claim is not supported by facts about global multilingualism, creole societies, creole language structures and theories of language contact. The vast majority of the world’s population is multilingual: the average human speaks almost two la…
Why neither demographics nor feature pools can explain the missing Spanish plantation creoles
Philosophy (12 obras) · History (10 obras) · Linguistics (10 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Creole language (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Epistemology (4 obras) · Language contact (4 obras)