**** Point of view assigned by researchers

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Most creolists try to adopt as best as possible the point of view of their objects of study.

-- Recent studies have been made from the perspective of native

speakers of the language under scrutiny. ..... <[LINK]>

-- Much work has, either implicitly or explicitly, a

genealogical bent to it, including superstrate

and substrate analyses. ...................... <[LINK]>

-- Most work at some point attempts to adopt the perspective of

a person or community in the situation of needing such a

language at a particular moment in time. While valuable at

the level of local synchronic knowledge, these perspectives

often cause confusion when they are monolithically applied

to global processes and states. .............. <[LINK]>

-- A synthetic use of multiple, situated approaches to

language, individual, community and history can be used to

make sense of seemingly contradictory indications.

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