The place of Guinea Coast Creole English (GCCE) and Sierra Leone Krio (SLK) in the Afro-genesis debate (original) (raw)

This paper examines the role sociohistorical evidence may play in untangling the relationship between Guinea Coast Creole English, Sierra Leone Krio, and Settler English and by extension their roles in the Afro-genesis debate. In this brief presentation, I am not able to propose a solution that would completely untangle the varieties, but, in particular, I evaluate the proposal that Sierra Leone Krio originated in the Americas. Perhaps more than most fields of linguistics, creolistics has grappled with sociohistorical evidence and its bearing on linguistic questions; however, within creolistics to date no sociohistorical work has addressed the modern location most associated with Sierra Leone Krio, that is, the Sierra Leone peninsula.

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