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  3. An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles
  • Cited by 114
  • John Holm, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2000
Online ISBN:
9781139164153
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139164153
Subjects:
Grammar and Syntax, Linguistic Anthropology, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Anthropology, Language and Linguistics
Series:
Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
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Book description

This textbook is a clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being. Starting with an overview of the field's basic concepts, it surveys the new languages that developed as a result of the European expansion to the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Long misunderstood as 'bad' versions of European languages, today such varieties as Jamaican Creole English, Haitian Creole French and New Guinea Pidgin are recognized as distinct languages in their own right. John Holm examines the structure of these pidgins and creoles, the social history of their speakers, and the theories put forward to explain how their vocabularies, sound systems and grammars evolved. His new findings on structural typology, including non-Atlantic creoles, permit a wide-ranging assessment of the nature of restructured languages worldwide. This much-needed book will be welcomed by students and researchers in linguistics, sociolinguistics, western European languages, anthropology and sociology.

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‘The style in which the book is written is generally accessible and clear … The book is generally well-produced, containing a list of abbreviations, a 15-page index, and two detailed language maps.’

Source: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

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