TY - BOOK ID - 25049713 TI - Creole genesis and the acquisition of grammar: the case of Haitian Creole PY - 1989 SN - 0521593824 0521025389 0511519826 9780521025386 9780511519826 9780521593823 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Grammar KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Dialectology KW - Pidgin KW - Creolan languages KW - Haiti KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Language & Linguistics KW - Creole dialects. KW - Pidgin languages. KW - Psycholinguistics. KW - Second language acquisition. KW - Creole dialects, French KW - Creole languages KW - Creolized languages KW - Languages, Mixed KW - Pidgin languages KW - French Creole languages KW - Second language learning KW - Language acquisition KW - Language, Psychology of KW - Language and languages KW - Psychology of language KW - Speech KW - Linguistics KW - Psychology KW - Thought and thinking KW - Contact vernaculars KW - Hybrid languages KW - Jargons KW - Pidgeon languages KW - Pigeon languages KW - Lingua francas KW - Grammar. KW - Psychological aspects KW - Creole dialects KW - Second language acquisition KW - Creole dialects, French - Haiti - Grammar UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:25049713 AB - This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis - relexification, reanalysis and direct levelling - processes which the author demonstrates play a significant role in language genesis and change in general. Dr Lefebvre argues that the creators of pidgins/creoles use the parametric values of their native languages in establishing those of the language that they are creating and the semantic principles of their own grammar in concatenating morphemes and words in the new language. This theory is documented on the basis of a uniquely detailed comparison of Haitian creole with its contributing French and West African languages. Summarizing more than twenty years of funded research, the author examines the input of adult, as opposed to child, speakers and resolves the problems in the three main approaches, universalist, superstratist and substratist, which have been central to the recent debate on creole development. ER -