Assertion: creole's language | /r/CapableOf | start thinking of it
Facets:
value: as a complex adaptive system
type: OTHER
value: as a species
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Understanding much of the position I present here depends on rejecting the common assumption that a language is an organism, and starting thinking of it as a species, which is internally variable, and a complex adaptive system (Mufwene 1996b, 1998b).