Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies.
- 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
List of Abbreviations.
1 Introduction (Silvia Kouwenberg and John Victor Singler).
Part I Properties of Pidgins and Creoles.
2 Atlantic Creole Syntax (Donald Winford).
3 Forging Pacific Pidgin and Creole Syntax: Substrate, Discourse, and Inherent Variability (Miriam Meyerhoff).
4 Pidgin and Creole Morphology (Terry Crowley).
5 Creole Phonology (Norval S. H. Smith).
6 Pidgins versus Creoles and Pidgincreoles (Peter Bakker).
7 Non-Indo-European Pidgins and Creoles (Kees Versteegh).
Part II Perspectives on Pidgin/Creole Genesis.
8 Pidgins/Creoles, and Second Language Acquisition (Jeff Siegel).
9 Creole Genesis: The Impact of the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis (Tonjes Veenstra).
10 Pidgins/Creoles and Historical Linguistics (Sarah G. Thomason).
11 Pidgins/Creoles and Contlc'
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