First steps towards a typological profile of creoles

Abstract

In the past four decades, several scholars have proposed lists of typical creole features: e.g. Taylor (1971), Bickerton (1981), Markey (1982), McWhorter (1998), Holm and Patrick (2007). However, when these were tested against individual creoles or sets of creoles, the results were, at best, mixed: there are no creoles that adhere to all the features selected by these authors, and worse yet, quite a few of the proposed features are only found in a minority of creoles.

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