Creole distinctiveness

Against Creole exceptionalism (redux)*

1. RECONSIDERING CREOLE EXCEPTIONALISM? The primary goal of my Discussion Note ‘Against Creole exceptionalism’ (Language 79.2.391–410, hereafter ACE) was to demystify a variety of past and present beliefs—widespread in and outside academia—according to which Creole languages constitute an exceptional class on phylogenetic and/or typological grounds. Derek Bickerton’s reply (‘Reconsidering Creol...

Modern Phylogenetics and Creole Evolution: Creole Family Values

Creole in Mauritius

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com I chose to present the creole issue in Mauritius in the same way as I have used it in my research. The ambiguity, if not the blurring of the meaning of this term, has led me not to use it at all. I replaced it with the concept of autochthony, although the Mauritian settlement did not produce a myth of origin. The first part deals with the constituti...

Testing the creole continuum

Creole Viewed from Population Dynamics

Creole is one of the main topics in various fields concerning the language origin and the language change, such as sociolinguistics, the developmental psychology of language, paleoanthropology and so on. Our purpose in this paper is to develop an evolutionary theory of language to study the emergence of creole. We discuss how the emergence of creole is dealt with in the perspective of populatio...