Scientists
have argued that creoles constitute a distinct type of language resulting from
unusual sociohistorical circumstances. In Deconstructing
Creoles we have assembled papers that assess basic theories supporting this
assumption by analyzing exemplary creoles. The analyses of creoles spoken in
diverse parts of the world ultimately led to a conflicting assumption: Instead
of supporting that creole genesis is merely a process of simplification
including breaks in transmission, the analyses have shown that it is, instead,
a matter of languages mixing with no remarkable simplification involved. It is
concluded that new languages arise scientifically indistinguishable from older
languages, and that they show as many arbitrary complexities as the languages
they are based upon.
-Diana, Francesca, Lisa
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