Bibliographical request re "Creoles as lesser languages"

[Michel DeGraff]

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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 (implicitly or explicitly) espouse 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.