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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 27 May 2024

A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.

• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
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• Release Date : 20 December 1994

This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of previous linguistic knowledge.

• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
• File Size : 36,8 Mb
• Release Date : 27 May 1995

For review see: Geneviève Escure, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 72, no. 1 & 2 (1998); p. 192-194. - For abstract see: Caribbean Abstracts, no. 7, 1995-1996 (1997); p. 11, no. 0018.

• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
• File Size : 42,8 Mb
• Release Date : 15 April 2015

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. Part I presents

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• File Size : 52,5 Mb
• Release Date : 11 February 2009

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

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 50,7 Mb
• Release Date : 02 September 2003

The focus of this study is upon those pidgins and creoles which are English based and which have arisen since the fifteenth century. The book examines the widespread nature of

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 05 May 1988

This first volume of Holm's major survey of pidgins and creoles provides a readable introduction to a field of study that has become established only in the past few decades.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 27 May 1988

An overview of the socio-historical development of some one hundred different pidgins and creoles.

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 08 September 2017

This book defines and describes the linguistic features of these languages and considers the dynamic developments that bring them into being and lead to changes in their structure.

• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
• File Size : 55,8 Mb
• Release Date : 06 October 1997

Destined to become a landmark work, this book is devoted principally to a reassessment of the content, categories, boundaries, and basic assumptions of pidgin and creole studies. It includes revised