User talk:Valentine142

Whose creole
"Whose creole" is the correct grammatical form. It is meant to be a question asking: "To whom does creole belong?" The phrase became a classical in the creole classification debate of the fifties where the question seemed to be: Do creole languages, as phylogenetic outcomes, belong to their superstrate or their substrate parent?

As you can see, changing "whose" to "who is" would change not only the intended meaning but also the historicity of the quotation.

As far as I can remember, the quotation is attributable to Taylor. Eklir (talk) 17:52, 21 November 2008 (UTC)