The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages by John McWhorter

The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages

John McWhorter

292 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this provocative exploration of the origins of plantation creoles. Using a wealth of data--linguistic, sociolinguistic, historical--he proposes that the "limited access model" of cr...

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