Reconsidering Creole Exceptionalism

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ID11111652
AuthorsDerek Bickerton (corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume80
Issue4
Pages828-833
Publication date2004-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/lan.2004.0164
OpenAlexW2003992050
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited16

DeGraffs Discussion Note in Language 79.2.391-410 (‘Against Creole exceptionalism’, henceforth ACE) combines an accusation that the views of many, perhaps most of his creolist colleagues are vitiated by (perhaps unconscious) racial prejudice with the espousal of a theory of Creole genesis that has been around for a century or more without earning the support of more than a handful of creolists. ACE represents a striking volte-face from the moderate and open-minded approach of DeGraff 1999. In this work, DeGraff sought out the best points from a variety of approaches and attempted to synthesize them. In contrast, ACE mounts a single-minded crusade against what is probably a majority of creolists, including several of the invited contributors to DeGraff 1999, on the basis of seriously flawed evidence

Creole language · Epistemology · Exceptionalism · Linguistics · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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