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'recent issues'
What it is that is relexified {<[LINK]> def.} has proven the
most volatile issue in recent creole studies. Points of
contention include:
(1) the extent that the relexified variety retains or adopts
phonemic and morphemic referents vis a vis allophonic and
allomorphic {<[LINK]> --define -emic, -etic, allo-, --see Pike, tie
in importance} incursions of the lexifier or lexifiers; and
(2) whether relexification maps onto
(A) a universal grammar (Bickerton's hypothesis {<[LINK]>
Bick-81}) or
(B) onto a particular language's grammar <dumb --socioling.
theories> or
(C) a combination of grammars.
(3) This has resulted in a dichotomy situated along two strange,
perhaps non-euclidean, sets of axes: Theoretical/sociological
and universal/substrate <[LINK] -substrate>. The genesis of
these splits can be traced in the history outlined above
<[LINK]>
(4) as situated in the larger context of the academic world and
the world at large during the last century. <[LINK]>
<[LINK] to return to main menu of history of creole studies>
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