Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
February 27, 2014 - 4:00pm
“Is the Creole Prototype Hypothesis a Mistake? Assessing the Debate Over Whether Creoles are a Synchronic Type of Language”
Rosenfeld Hall, Room 109
109 Grove Street
About John McWhorter
John McWhorter teaches linguistics, American Studies and Western Civilization at Columbia University. He specializes in language change and language contact, with a focus on the effects of second language acquisition at the intersection of both processes. He has written various books on language as well as race and cultural issues, such as The Power of Babel, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, Doing Our Own Thing, and Winning the Race, writes regularly for TIME, and is contributing editor at The New Republic.