[Disclaimer: I am not a member so I could only read the first few paragraphs of this piece. Apologies in advance if I am discussing something already covered by it. AT]

The work of Derek Bickerton is must reading for anyone interested in Creole languages, I had the honor of meeting him in Honolulu over 30 years ago. He said, "What Kepler was to Galileo, I am to Chomsky."

From Wikipedia:

"Bickerton's language bioprogram theory, proposed in the 1980s, remains the main universalist theory.[56] Bickerton claims that creoles are inventions of the children growing up on newly founded plantations. Around them, they only heard pidgins spoken, without enough structure to function as natural languages; and the children used their own innate linguistic capacities to transform the pidgin input into a full-fledged language. The alleged common features of all creoles would then stem from those innate abilities being universal."

I would take issue only witxh the adjective "alleged".