Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 2, Reference Survey

John A Holm author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:11th May '89

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An overview of the socio-historical development of some one hundred different pidgins and creoles.

Pidgins and Creoles is a major linguistic survey which lays new foundations for research in the field. This volume presents an overview of the socio-historical development of each of some one hundred pidgins, creoles and semi-creoles, providing texts and highlinghting the salient linguistics features of each.This second volume of John Holm's Pidgins and Creoles provides an overview of the socio-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 organisation, 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.

"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

ISBN: 9780521359405

Dimensions: 237mm x 156mm x 34mm

Weight: 770g

476 pages