Lefebvre, Claire
(2004).
« The relexification account of creole genesis: The case of Haitian Creole », dans
Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages, sous la dir. de Lefebvre, Claire.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins, pp. 59-180.
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This chapter consists of a summary of Lefebvre's Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar: the Case of Haitian Creole published by Cambridge University Press in 1998. It provides an account of the genesis of creole languages cast within the framework of the processes otherwise known to play a role in the formation of new languages and in language change in general. Three major processes are considered: relexification, reanalysis and levelling.