Title: North Kyushu Creole: a language-contact model for the origins of Japanese
Abstract:The sociolinguistic model proposed in this chapter outlines a languagecontact scenario for the origins of Japanese, in contrast to the lineal descent model which has dominated discussions of the topic...The sociolinguistic model proposed in this chapter outlines a languagecontact scenario for the origins of Japanese, in contrast to the lineal descent model which has dominated discussions of the topic. In contrast to most previous theories, I suggest that archaic Japan displayed multilingual heterogeneity involving several language communities out of whose mixture and contact evolved a pidgin-creole.Read More
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-09-13
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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