Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 920 g
Reihe: Creole Language Library
An introduction
Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 920 g
Reihe: Creole Language Library
ISBN: 978-90-272-5236-4
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Diversity rather than unity is taken to be the central theme, and for the first time in an introduction to pidgins and creoles, the Atlantic creoles receive the attention they deserve. Pidgins are not treated as necessarily an intermediate step on the way to creoles, but as linguistic entities in their own right with their own characteristics. In addition to pidgins, mixed languages are treated in a separate chapter.
Research on pidgin and creole languages during the past decade has yielded an abundance of uncovered material and new insights. This introduction, written jointly by the creolists of the University of Amsterdam, could not have been written without recourse to this new material.