The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies

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Synopsis

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 core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language

Book details

Series:
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
Author:
Silvia Kouwenberg, John Victor Singler
ISBN:
9781444305999
Related ISBNs:
9781444305982, 9780631229025
Publisher:
Wiley
Pages:
704
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2019-12-30
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2009
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Language Arts, Nonfiction