Spears and Donald Winford Creole Language Library, 19 1997. Rickford, Robert Le Page, Robert Chaudenson, Ian F. The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics Edited by Arthur K. The Pidgin English (Neo-Melanesian) of New Guinea is spreading as an integrative force among speakers of New Guinea’s many diverse languages, and may become the national language of the new country an incipiently creolized Swahili has been adopted as the national language of administration and education in Tanzania. Contributors to this work are Albert Valdman, David DeCamp, Pieter Muysken, Guus Meijer, Derek Bickerton, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Charles A. Strictly speaking, PCs are new language varieties, which developed out of contacts between colonial nonstandard varieties of. The volume includes a global survey of the distribution of pidgin and creole languages, accompanied by a world distribution map and detailed maps of the Caribbean and other areas. Thus it may serve as a basic textbook in courses in sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and language contact, as well as in ethno- or anthropological linguistics, whose focus is language variation and its social and cultural implications. Calls: Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics - Summer Meeting 2023. It will acquaint persons relatively unfamiliar with the field with established theories and data, enabling them to follow current debates and to undertake research in the field. This volume of essays constitutes an up-to-date survey of pidgin and creole linguistics intended for general linguists and readers interested in current theory in such diverse areas as linguistic universals, language acquisition, bilingualism, and language planning.
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