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An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles

An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics

Linguistics

ISBN10: 0521584604
ISBN13: 9780521584609
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 17 2000
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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