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Re: Fluency Wish-List (and question)

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Friday, April 14, 2000, 10:07
At 16:33 13.4.2000 -0400, Roger Mills wrote:

>You may already know this, but the best authority on pidgins/creoles is Derek >Bickerton (Hawaii, or maybe retired by now). At least one book and no doubt >many articles. _Oceanic Linguistics_ might have things by him or his >followers-- it's on line at the U.Hawaii/Linguistics website (index only for >most past issues). >IIRC, the sequence in This world is: pidgin > creole
That's the sequence, according to all but Bickerton. His hypothesis is actually quite controversial. Check out: http://www.ling.su.se/Creole/Archive/Eklund-1.html /BP B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se <mailto:melroch@...>melroch@my-deja.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ Anant' avanaute quettalmar! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ___ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarocco\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine__ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ I neer Pityancalimeo\ \_____/ /ar/ /_atar Mercasso naan ~~~~~~~~~Cuinondil~~~\_______/~~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda cuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)