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Creole genesis and the acquisition of grammar The case of Haitian creole This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis – relexification, reanalysis and dialect levelling – processes which the author demonstrates play a significant role in language genesis and change in general. Dr Lefebvre argues that the creators of pidgins/creoles use the parametric values of their native languages in establishing those of the language that they are cre- ating and the semantic principles of their own grammar in concatenating mor- phemes and words in the new language. The theory is documented on the basis of a uniquely detailed comparison of Haitian creole with its contributing French and West African languages. Summarising more than twenty years of funded research, the author examines the input of adult, as opposed to child, speakers and resolves the problems in the three main approaches, universalist, superstratist and substratist, which have been central to the recent debate on creole development. Claire Lefebvre is professor of linguistics at the Université du Québec à Montréal. HH CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS General Editors: s. r. anderson, j . bresnan, b. comrie, w. dressler, c. ewen, r. huddleston, r. lass, d. lightfoot, j . lyons, p. h. matthews, r. posner, s. romaine, n. v. smith, n. vincent In this series 52 michael s. rochemont and peter w. culicover: English focus constructions and the theory of grammar 53 philip carr: Linguistic realities: an autonomist metatheory for the generative enterprise 54 eve sweetser: From etymology to pragmatics: metaphorical and cultural aspects of semantic structure 55 regina blass: Relevance relations in discourse: a study with special reference to Sissala 56 andrew chesterman: On definiteness: a study with special reference to English and Finnish 57 alessandra giorgio and giuseppi lo