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social classification in Creole Louisiana
Author(s) -
DOMÍNGUEZ VIRGINIA R.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1977.4.4.02a00010
Subject(s) - creole language , syntagmatic analysis , variation (astronomy) , linguistics , sociology , population , history , philosophy , demography , physics , astrophysics
Synchronic and diachronic variation in the definition and composition of the Creole population presents theoretical problems. Neither a strictly empirical historical analysis of social groups nor a strictly paradigmatic analysis of social categories renders a satisfactory explanation of semantic and empirical variation. Suggested in this paper as a more adequate alternative is a syntagmatic analysis of social classification that is at once structural and diachronic.