{"id":475,"date":"2003-05-27T23:57:03","date_gmt":"2003-05-28T03:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=475"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"on_the_origin_of_creoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/27\/on_the_origin_of_creoles\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Origin of Creoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\nAlthough I love linguistics, I&rsquo;ve never conducted research in it beyond class projects. A few weeks ago I posted my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtsai.com\/about\/PeriphrasisPaper.pdf\">term paper on periphrasis<\/a> just for kicks. It was a fun project, and I had found the research challenging. There were a lot of papers with relevant information, but few that focused on the precise areas I was investigating. Googling for &ldquo;periphrasis tsai&rdquo; revealed that my paper hadn&rsquo;t been indexed yet, but I came across an <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/www\/degraff\/darwin\/anti-simplest.html\">article<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/www\/degraff\/anti-simplest.pdf\">PDF<\/a>) by <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/www\/degraff.home.html\">Michel DeGraff<\/a> (one of my favorite professors). It&rsquo;s definitely worth reading if you&rsquo;re interested in this sort of thing. DeGraff is a master at debunking.\n\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\n\nRelated books:\n\n<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0262041685\/michaeltsai-20\">Language Creation and Language Change<\/a> (a collection of papers)<\/li>\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/006052085X\/michaeltsai-20\">The Power of Babel<\/a> (popular)<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I love linguistics, I&rsquo;ve never conducted research in it beyond class projects. A few weeks ago I posted my term paper on periphrasis just for kicks. It was a fun project, and I had found the research challenging. There were a lot of papers with relevant information, but few that focused on the precise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}