文档介绍：Creole genesis and the acquisition of grammar
The case of Haitian creole
This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis –
relexification, reanalysis and dialect levelling – processes which the author
demonstrates play a significant role in language genesis and change in general.
Dr Lefebvre argues that the creators of pidgins/creoles use the parametric values
of their native languages in establishing those of the language that they are cre-
ating and the semantic principles of their own grammar in concatenating mor-
phemes and words in the new language. The theory is documented on the basis
of a uniquely parison of Haitian creole with its contributing French
and West African languages. Summarising more than twenty years of funded
research, the author examines the input of adult, as opposed to child, speakers and
resolves the problems in the three main approaches, universalist, superstratist and
substratist, which have been central to the recent debate on creole development.
Claire Lefebvre is professor of linguistics at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
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