Pidgins and Creoles Natural Languages Linguistics

Pidgins and Creoles

Pidgins are languages that occur when people from two different languages come into contact and form a simplified hybrid language. If a pidgin language lasts long enough, eventually people are born who use that language as their first language; it then becomes known as a creole. Languages are organized in this category by acrolect (i.e., the contact language with the higher prestige). The acrolect is often European, reflecting the history of colonization, but this is not always the case.

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• - This paper discusses the parallels to creolization.
  
• - A definition of the term creole.
  
• - A brief review of John Holm's "An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles".
  
• - A discussion of whether Afrikaans and Yiddish are creole or creoloid.
  
• - Searchable archive of the most recent postings to the CreoLIST listserv.
  
• - "Tense/Aspect in Sranan and the creole prototype," "Creoles and Contact Linguistics," and "Irrealis in Sranan: Mood and modality in a radical creole".
  
• - A paper by Eric Schiller.
  
• - Number words in a variety of pidgins, creoles, and constructed languages.
  
• - A comparison transitive verbs in creole and pidgin languages by Susanne Michaelis and Martin Haspelmath.
  
• - A conference paper by Joan Bresnan.
  
• - Notes for a course in pidgin and creole languages. Discusses theories of pidginization, creolization and language contact.
  
• - Paper presented at the International Symposium on "Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages."
  
• - A list of contact languages, pidgins and creoles.
  
• - Tables of the names of numerals in various Romance-Language-based creoles.
  
• - A journal of all aspects of pidginization and creolization. A few full-text articles are available on-line. There is also an extensive glossary of creolist terminology.
  
• - Tables of the names of numerals in various Germanic-Language-based creoles.
  
• - Introductory article on the topic of pidgin and creole languages.
  
• - A definition of the term pidgin.
  
• - An introduction to pidgins and creoles.
  
• - Basic facts about pidgins and creoles with examples.
  
• - Definitions of "creole", "pidgin", "dialect" and "variety" are given.
  
• - Bibliographic guide to contact language reference material available at Stanford University.
  
  

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