Topic > Creole Classification - 1329

Creole exceptionalism encompasses several enduring hypotheses regarding creole languages ​​in which they are regarded as constituting "a sui generis class on phylogenetic and/or structural grounds" (De Graf, 2014, p. 233) , For example, it has been hypothesized that Creoles are “degenerate branches” of their European predecessors (DeGraf, 2014, p. 233). There are also creoles with “special hybrids” with distinctive genealogy (DeGraf, 2014, p. 233). Furthermore, creoles are the only modern languages ​​that have not evolved normally compared to other languages ​​simply because they have no structurally complete predecessors. Finally, the transition from pidgin to creole “recapitulates the transition from prehuman protolanguage to human language” (DeGraf, 2014, p..