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	From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr>
	Subject: ELL: QUERY: Bibliographical request: "Creoles as lesser
	languages"
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	Dear colleagues,

	Please reply directly to Michel Degraff <degraff at MIT.EDU> with regard
	to
	the message below that he has asked me to forward to others.

	Thanks,

	Jeff

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	To: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr>
	Subject: Bibliographical request: "Creoles as lesser languages"
	:::

	Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 22:15:24 EDT
	From: Michel DeGraff <degraff at MIT.EDU>
	:

	Dear all,

	I'd very much appreciate any help in locating _recent_
	scholarly(-looking)
	quotations where creole languages are contrasted to "normal",
	"natural"
	and/or "regular" languages.  In a similar vein, I am looking for
	_recent_
	scholarly quotations where creoles are characterized as qualitatively
	lesser, deficient, overly limited and/or underdeveloped.

	To somewhat illustrate what I am looking for: the most famous (but not
	so
	recent) quotations of this sort may be the ones in Leonard
	Bloomfield's
	(1933) classic treatise where creoles are viewed as (originating from
	systems that count as)

	  "aberrant ... sub-standard ... baby-talk ... simplified ...
	  imperfect
	    reproduction [of European language] ... incorrect ... inferior
	  dialect
	    ... subject to improvement in direction of [master's speech] ...
	  [etc,
	    etc.]"  (pp 471-475)

	    Similar quotations are critiqued in Chapter 1 of Holm's (1988)
	    "historical
	    overview" chapter of _Pidgins & Creoles_ (vol. 1)...  Any pointer
	    to recent
	    references that (explicitly or implicitly) go along with the
	    creole-as-qualitatively-lesser-language view would be most
	    helpful.

	    This is for a project where, among other things, I survey the
	    evolution of
	    meta-linguistic attitudes and of educational/research practices
	    related to
	    Haitian Creole.  One goal is to try to better understand the links
	    between
	    the history of Haiti and (changes in) attitudes toward Haitian
	    Creole
	    both as medium and as object of instruction and description.

	    Thank you very much,

	                                     -michel.

					     Michel DeGraff <degraff at MIT.EDU>
					     MIT Linguistics & Philosophy, 77
					     Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA
					     02139-4307
					                http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/degraff.home.html

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