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Lexical Conflation as a Basis for Relexification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Alain Kihm*
Affiliation:
Centre national de recherche scientifique, Paris

Extract

Substratal influences as an explanation for creolization (and language change generally) often fail to convince for one major reason, namely that, in most cases, the possible substratum for a given creole language is now separated from the site where creolization took place by a wide historical and geographical gap. This, for example, is the case of the West African languages vis-à-vis the Caribbean Creoles.

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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1989

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