This textbook is a clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being. Starting with an overview of the field's basic concepts, it surveys the new languages that developed as a result of the European expansion to the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Long misunderstood as "bad" versions of European languages, today such varieties as Jamaican Creole English, Haitian Creole French and New Guinea Pidgin are recognized as distinct languages in their own right.
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"This book is well written, clear, and accessible to students with a minimum of linguistics background, and in all it covers well what it sets out to discuss." Studies in Second Language Acquisition
"Holm has worked on these languages for the best part of three decades, and this is apparent in the width and scope of his research." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
"Holm has worked on these languages for the best part of three decades, and this is apparent in the width and scope of his research." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
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This textbook is a clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being. Starting with an overview of the field's basic concepts, it surveys the new languages that developed as a result of the European expansion to the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Long misunderstood as 'bad' versions of European languages, today such varieties as Jamaican Creole English, Haitian Creole French and New Guinea Pidgin are recognized as distinct languages in their own right.
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How does new language come into being?,
This review is from: An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) (Paperback)
Pidgins and Creoles are languages, which be born and developed in special social conditions. They are not only teach us how new language comes into being. They can also give us what elements in language are neccessary, why contact languages born from practical communication are more easily to learn and use. If you'd like to know whether really exist simpler languages than natural languages, the book will answer your questions above. This book maybe is the best textbook on creolistics.
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How does new language come into being?,
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Pidgins and Creoles are languages, which be born and developed in special social conditions. They are not only teach us how new language comes into being. They can also give us what elements in language are neccessary, why contact languages born from practical communication are more easily to learn and use. If you'd like to know whether really exist simpler languages than natural languages, the book will answer your questions above. This book maybe is the best textbook on creolistics.
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This chapter traces the development of the major ideas that have shaped the study of pidgin and creole languages. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lexical source languages, other lexical bases, decreolizing varieties, creoles surveyed, paragogic vowels, regressive nasalization, restructured languages, superstrate languages, preverbal markers, substrate languages, creole phonology, anterior marker, restructured varieties, creole studies, habitual marker, creole verbs, irrealis marker, completive markers, progressive marker, creole linguistics, creole syntax, adjectival verbs, substrate influence, creoles based, monogenetic theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tok Pisin, West African, Miskito Coast, Sao Tomé, New World, New Guinea, Van Name, African American Vernacular English, Gulf of Guinea, Lesser Antillean, West Indies, Ivens Ferraz, United States, Nubi Creole Arabic, Cape Verdean, Brazilian Portuguese, French Guiana, Haitian Creole French, Virgin Islands, South Africa, West Indian, English-based Atlantic, Irish English, Liberian English, Negerhollands Creole Dutch New!
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This chapter traces the development of the major ideas that have shaped the study of pidgin and creole languages. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lexical source languages, other lexical bases, decreolizing varieties, creoles surveyed, paragogic vowels, regressive nasalization, restructured languages, superstrate languages, preverbal markers, substrate languages, creole phonology, anterior marker, restructured varieties, creole studies, habitual marker, creole verbs, irrealis marker, completive markers, progressive marker, creole linguistics, creole syntax, adjectival verbs, substrate influence, creoles based, monogenetic theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tok Pisin, West African, Miskito Coast, Sao Tomé, New World, New Guinea, Van Name, African American Vernacular English, Gulf of Guinea, Lesser Antillean, West Indies, Ivens Ferraz, United States, Nubi Creole Arabic, Cape Verdean, Brazilian Portuguese, French Guiana, Haitian Creole French, Virgin Islands, South Africa, West Indian, English-based Atlantic, Irish English, Liberian English, Negerhollands Creole Dutch New!
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- Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 1, Theory and Structure (Cambridge Language Surveys) by John A. Holm in Front Matter, page 57, and Back Cover
- Dictionary of Jamaican English by Frederic G. Cassidy on page 45
- Asia and the Pacific (Handbooks to the Modern World) by Robert H. Taylor on page 42
- The Second World War: An Illustrated History by A. J. P. Taylor on page 42
- Languages in Contact: The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars by John Holm in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Andrew Radford in Front Matter
- An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Wiley Desktop Editions) by Ronald Wardhaugh in Back Matter
- The Phonological Structure of Words: An Introduction (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Colin J. Ewen in Front Matter
- Multiple Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism by Carol Myers-Scotton in Back Matter
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