What you see is not always what you get: Apparent simplicity and hidden complexity in creole languages

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 186-213

  Lefebvre, Claire ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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EID: 34248741341     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/lity.2001.002     Document Type: Note

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