On the origin of creoles: A Cartesian critique of Neo-Darwinian linguistics

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 213-310

  DeGraff, Michel ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1515/lity.2001.002     Document Type: Note

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