![]() ![]() The book is designed for students of courses with a focus on pidgins, creoles and mixed languages, as well as typologically oriented courses on contact linguistics. ![]() This is the first introduction that consistently applies the findings of the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures and systematically includes extended pidgins and mixed languages in the discussion of each linguistic feature. Part II empirically tests assumptions made about the linguistic characteristics of pidgins and creoles by systematically comparing them with other natural languages in all linguistic domains. Part I presents the theoretical background, with chapters devoted to the definition of terms, the sociohistorical settings, theories on the genesis of pidgins and creoles, as well as discussions on language variation and the sociology of language. This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics. Theories on the formation processes of creoles The observation that children of immigrants, receiving rudimentary language exposure, were able to produce a more complex version of. ![]() Mixed languages, introduced in chapter 4. Interestingly, children of these immigrants developed creoles, which were grammatically more sophisticated. pidgin and creole, nor about the status of a number of languages that have been claimed to be pidgins or creoles. Theories on the formation processes of pidgins Pidgins are a linguistic free-for-all, with word order often based on the speakers native language. Sociohistorical contexts of pidgins and creoles Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index. ![]()
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