The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies, Hardback Book

The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies Hardback

Edited by Silvia (University of the West Indies) Kouwenberg, John Victor (New York University) Singler

Part of the Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series

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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 studiesBrings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor teamAccessibly 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 societyProvides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language

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