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'Van Name's 1869-70 publications'

Although several people had collected speech samples and

compiled dictionaties of various creoles previously, the first

scholarly comparative treatment of the field was Adison Van

Name's 1869-70 "Contributions to Creole Grammar," a concise

comparison of Caribbean Creoles from French, Dutch, English and

Spanish lexical bases. He raised issues of the relation between

pidgins and creoles and other kinds of language change as well as

recognizing the importance of social factors such as age and

proportion of the population. While Van Name recognized an

African influence on creoles, he thought them essentially

European in their form and content. His was the first opinion in

a battle over substrate influence that is still under way.

({<[LINK]> Holm88} 24-27)

<[LINK] to continue with historiography of creole studies>

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