morphosyntax that are relevant to both hypotheses on the origins of the Afro-Hispanic
languages of the Americas (ie, the Decreolization Hypothesis, Granda, 1968 et seq) and
theoretical proposals on the nature of cross-linguistic variation (ie, Null Subject Parameter,
NSP, Rizzi, 1982). Results suggest that the grammatical features under investigation can be
conceived as the by-product of advanced second language acquisition processes, and do …