This innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture i

Who are the Creoles? The answer is not clear-cut. Of European, African, or Caribbean mixed descent, they are a people of color and Francophone dialect native to

A compelling argument for why creoles are their own unique entity, which have developed independently of other processes of language development and change.

In John McWhorter’s Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable

Deconstructing Creole is a collection of studies aimed at critically assessing the idea of creole languages as a homogeneous structural type with shared and pec