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==Syntactic similarities==

By comparing [[Hawaiian PidginCreole]], and[[Haitian Creole{{which|date=February]] 2017}}and [[Sranan]], Bickerton identified twelve features which he believed to be integral to any creole:{{Citation needed|date=February 2008}}

*Sentence structure: [[subject–verb–object]] word order, with similar mechanisms for using word order to apply [[Focus (linguistics)|focus]] to one of these constituents.

*Articles: [[definite article]] applied to specific and identified noun phrase, [[indefinite article]] applied to specific and newly asserted noun phrase, and zero for nonspecific noun phrase.{{Dubious |Talk articles|date=February 2017}}