The Creole Debate

Authors

  • Marianne Kilani-Schoch Université de Lausanne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17184/eac.anthropen.118

Keywords:

Creole exceptionalism,, Superstratism, Creole prototype, Postcolonialism, Linguistics

Abstract

This entry summarizes the debate that has been raging for more than 20 years between the proponents of creoles as a distinct class of languages among the world’s languages (the exceptionalist approach) and the proponents of the socio-historical approach who reject the term creole as a principle of classification. It seeks to analyze the issues at stake in this war over creoles.

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2019-10-01