- A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies
- Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team
- Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society
- Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language
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The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies
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eBook - PDF
The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies
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Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies.
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Table of contents
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction SILVIA KOUWENBERG AND JOHN VICTOR SINGLER
- Part I Properties of Pidgins and Creoles
- Part II Perspectives on Pidgin/Creole Genesis
- Part III Pidgins/Creoles and Linguistic Explanation
- Part IV Pidgins/Creoles and Kindred Languages
- Part V Pidgins/Creoles in Society
- Author Index
- Language Index
- Subject Index
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