This paper discusses internally-motivated change as a largely ignored factor in understanding diachrony in creole languages: that is, externally-motivated models — and the most popular of these is certainly decreolization and the related concept of the creole continuum — have been nearly exclusively relied upon by creolists to explain phenomena associated with language variation and change in creole-speaking communities, particularly among the Atlantic English-derived creoles. This paper presents one alternative to viewing variation data derived from creole speakers as solely a function of decreolization. It raises issues associated with (and explores alternatives to) that singular view of diachrony.
2014. REFLEXIONES EN TORNO A LA SITUACIÓN SOCIOLINGÜÍSTICA DE LAS LENGUAS CRIOLLAS DE BASE LÉXICA INGLESA DEL CARIBE. Forma y Función 27:1 ► pp. 199 ff.
Snow, Peter
2007. VERNACULAR SHIFT: LANGUAGE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN BASTIMENTOS, PANAMA. Identities 14:1-2 ► pp. 161 ff.
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