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The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages

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The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages - McWhorter, John
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A controversial new analysis of the development of New World creole languages among slaves. Mc Whorter makes a vast amount of new data available in his book, and posits that New World creole languages developed in West Africa, not on the plantations in the New World.

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The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages 2000, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

ISBN-13: 9780520219991

Hardcover