Verse analysis and the nature of creole discourse: Universals and substrata

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 285-337

  Masuda, Hirokuni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

Author keywords

Creole languages; Discourse grammar; Substrata; The complementary hypothesis; Universals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989382926     PISSN: 09209034     EISSN: 15699870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jpcl.14.2.03mas     Document Type: Article

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