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@article{item_3273488,
title = {{Avoiding bias in comparative Creole studies: Stratification by lexifier and substrate}},
author = {Michaelis, Susanne Maria},
language = {eng},
doi = {10.5565/rev/isogloss.100},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-12},
abstract = {{One major research question in creole studies has been whether the social/diachronic circumstances of the creolizaton processes are unique, and if so, whether this uniqueness of the evolution of creoles also leads to unique structural changes, which are reflected in a unique structural profile. Some creolists have claimed that indeed the answer to both questions is yes, e.g. Bickerton (1981), McWhorter (2001), and more recently Peter Bakker and Aym{\'e}ric Daval-Markussen. But these authors have generally overlooked that cross-creole generalizations require representative sampling, especially when working quantitatively. Sampling for genealogical and areal control has been a much discussed topic within world-wide typology, but not yet in comparative creolistics. In all available comparative creoles studies, European-based Atlantic creoles are strongly overrepresented, so that typical features of these languages are taken as {\textquotedblleft}pan-creole{\textquotedblright} features, e.g. serial verbs, double-object constructions, or obligatory use of overt pronominal subjects. But many of these Atlantic creoles have the same genealogical/areal profile, i.e. European (lexifier) + Macro-Sudan (substrate). I therefore propose a new sampling method that controls for genealogical/areal relatedness of both the substrate and the lexifier, which I call {\textquotedblleft}bi-clan{\textquotedblright} control (where {\textquotedblleft}clan{\textquotedblright} is a cover term for linguistic families and convergence areas).}},
journal = {{Isogloss}},
volume = {6},
number = {8},
}