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Huttar, George L. – Language, 1975
Presents evidence for the idea that when morphemes are borrowed from a socially dominant language into a pidgin, and extended in usage as in a creole, the major factor determining the direction of such extension is the linguistic background of the speakers of languages other than the dominant one. (Author/CLK)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles, Language Patterns, Language Universals

Sankoff, Gillian; Brown, Penelope – Language, 1976
This article discusses the discourse functions of relativization. Relativization is seen as an instance of the application of "bracketing" devices used in the organization of information. Syntactic structure is thus seen as a component of, and derivative from, discourse structure. (CLK)
Descriptors: Creoles, Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns