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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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