Morphology in Creole genesis

[Michel DeGraff]

Dear Colleagues,

The following paper is available for downloading and circulating---this is
part of long-term project, so comments are most welcome.

     "Morphology in Creole genesis:  A prolegomenon"
     To appear in: Michael Kenstowicz, ed.,
     _Ken Hale: A Life in Language_
     Cambridge MASS.: MIT Press

This essay evaluates widely-believed received notions about Creole
morphology---the sort of truisms one often reads in introductory
linguistics textbooks, including the classics (Jespersen 1922, Bloomfield
1933, Hocket 1958, Martinet 1969, etc).  These received notions span the
entire course of Creole studies and a variety of theoretical approaches.

The essay also revisits some of the historical foundations of Creole
studies and their relationships to contemporary sociological concerns in,
and about, Creole communities.

Postscript (496,574 bytes):

  http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/degraff/festschrift.ps

PDF for Acrobat Reader (424,724 bytes):

  http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/degraff/festschrift.pdf

Thank you.

                                 -michel.

P.S.  If you're having problems downloading the paper from the web (60
pages, including 26 endnotes and 8 pages of references), I'll be glad to
send you a copy as an attachment (in PDF or postscript format) or via the
post office (in prehistoric hardcopy format).

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