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The introduction explores the concepts of linguistic innovation and inheritance. It emphasises the goal of this study to remain outside the contentions of current theories of creolisation. Instead, it aims to apply the recent discoveries in linguistics emphasising the perspective of the language user to historical knowledge of French Guianese Creole and to a corpus of recordings of French Guianese Creole.
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Jennings, W., Pfänder, S. (2018). Introduction: A Dual Approach. In: Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61952-1_1
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