Assertion: creole | /r/HasProperty | treated as dialects of their lexifiers
Facets:
value: as separate languages
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: I maintain that creoles could also be treated as dialects of their lexifiers, at least where their native speakers think so.
text: However, whether they are treated as dialects of their lexifiers or as separate languages should not really concern us that much, because this distinction changes nothing to the nature of structural questions we address, certainly not about the kind of restructuring that produced them nor about their undeniable genetic ties with their lexifiers.