Title An introduction to pidgin and creoles / John Holm.

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Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Description	1 online resource (xxi, 282 pages).
Series	Cambridge textbooks in linguistics
	Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	Pidgins and creoles and linguistics -- Before European expansion -- Early European expansion -- The eighteenth century -- The early nineteenth century -- Van Name -- Schuchardt and his contemporaries -- Hesseling and his contemporaries -- Reinecke and his contemporaries -- Hall and Taylor -- Monogenesis -- The creole continuum -- Universalists again -- Substratists again -- Other trends -- Social factors -- The Portuguese-based creoles -- Angolar Creole Portuguese -- The Spanish-based creoles -- Papiamentu Creole Spanish -- The Dutch-based creoles -- Negerhollands Creole Dutch -- The French-based creoles -- Haitian Creole French -- English-based Atlantic creoles -- Jamaican Creole English -- English-based Pacific pidgins and creoles -- Tok Pisin -- Pidgins and creoles based on other languages -- Nubi Creole Arabic -- Lexicosemantics -- Pidginization and the lexicon -- Superstrate sources -- Substrate lexical influence -- Other lexical sources -- Morphological changes -- Semantic changes -- Change of syntactic function -- Phonology -- Continua -- Phonotactic rules -- Oral vowels -- Nasal vowels -- Vowel harmony -- Consonants -- Suprasegmentals -- Syntax -- The verb phrase -- Forms of 'be' -- Serial verbs -- The noun phrase -- Other function words -- Word order.
Summary	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.
Subject	Creole dialects.
	Pidgin languages.
	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Creole Languages.
	Pidgin languages.
	Langues creoles.
	Pidgins (Langues)
	Creole dialects.
	Creole dialects. (OCoLC)fst00882773
	Pidgin languages. (OCoLC)fst01063860
	Pidgintalen.
	Creooltalen.
	Kreolische Sprachen -- 0 Gesamtdarstellung.
	Pidginsprachen -- 0 Gesamtdarstellung.
	Pidgin-Sprachen -- Einführung.
	Kreolische Sprachen -- Einführung.
	Creoles -- Introduction.
	Pidgins -- Introduction.
	Langue créole.
	Langue pidgin.
	Soziolinguistik.
	Pidginisierung.
	Pidgin-Sprachen.
	Kreolische Sprachen.
Other Form:	Print version: Holm, John A. Introduction to pidgin and creoles. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521584604 0521585813 (DLC) 99023499 (OCoLC)41223947
ISBN	0511039859 (electronic bk.)
	9780511039850 (electronic bk.)
	9781139164153 (electronic bk.)
	1139164155 (electronic bk.)

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