Pidgins and Creoles

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Paperback | 10 July 1989

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This second volume of John Holm''s Pidgins and Creoles provides an overview of the social-historical development of each of some one hundred known pidgins and creoles. Each variety is grouped according to the language from which it drew its lexicon -- Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, English, African and other languages. John Holm convincingly demonstrates the historical and linguistic reasons for this organization, which also enables the reader to perceive with ease the interrelationship of all varieties within each group. The section devoted to each variety provides a discussion of its salient linguistic features and presents a brief text, usually of connected discourse, with a morpheme-by-morpheme translation. Readers thus have access to data from all known pidgins and creoles in the world, and the volume provides possibly the most comprehensive reference source on pidginization and creolization yet available.

The emphasis of John Holm''s first volume was on linguistic structure and theory. Each volume can be read independently, but together the two volumes of Pidgins and Creoles provide a major survey of current pidgin and creole linguistics which lays new foundations for research in the field.

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"A remarkable compendium of all there is to know about the subject..." Journal of Indo-European Studies "...will prove very useful to anyone contemplating fieldwork in virtually any pidgin or creole speech community in the world." American Anthropologist

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Reference survey
List of maps
Introduction
List of abbreviations
Portuguese-based varieties
Spanish-based varieties
Dutch-based varieties
French-based varieties
English-based varieties
Varieties based on African languages
Varieties based on other languages
Conclusion
References
Index to volumes I and II
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