It is of course possible to maintain a discrete interpretation of the Jamaican and other similar situations by recognizing intermediate varieties as essentially acrolectal or standard with interference or mixing from the creole, or vice versa. However, as Bickerton [Bickerton, D. 1973. “On the Nature of Creole Continuum”, Language, 49, pp. 641-669] has pointed out, this suggests that a continuum is simply produced by the random, mutual interference of two discrete and self-confident grammars.
- Romaine (1988), Pag. 178