Pidgins and Creoles Natural Languages Linguistics

Pidgins and Creoles Natural Languages Linguistics

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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Creole Romance Numerals - Tables of the names of numerals in various Romance-Language-based creoles.
Accounting for Creole Reflexive Forms - Full text of a 2001 paper by Bernd Heine. [PDF]
Pidgins and Creoles Archive - A distribution point for research papers on Pidgins and Creoles, hosted by the University of Siegen, Germany.
Pidgins, Creoles, and Constructed Languages - Number words in a variety of pidgins, creoles, and constructed languages.
Review of John Holm on Pidgins and Creoles - A brief review of John Holm's "An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles".
Reference Guide for Pidgin and Creole Languages - Bibliographic guide to contact language reference material available at Stanford University.
Pidgin - A definition of the term pidgin.
CC: Pidgin Carriers - Introductory article on the topic of pidgin and creole languages.
Linguist List 7.1721: Creolistics - A discussion of whether Afrikaans and Yiddish are creole or creoloid.
Germanic Creole Numerals - Tables of the names of numerals in various Germanic-Language-based creoles.
Creole Language - A definition of the term creole.
Pidgin and Creole Languages - Notes for a course in pidgin and creole languages. Discusses theories of pidginization, creolization and language contact.
Attributive Possession in Creoles - Full text of a 2000 paper by Heine and Kuteva. [PDF]
Why Do Creoles Have Serial Verb Constructions? - A paper by Eric Schiller.
Unserdeutsch Language - A brief description of Unserdeutch, a German-based pidgin spoken in what is now Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.
Pidgins and Creoles - Basic facts about pidgins and creoles with examples.
Psycholinguistics: Pidgin and Creole languages - An introduction to pidgins and creoles.
Archives of CreoLIST - Searchable archive of the most recent postings to the CreoLIST listserv.
Pidgin Genesis in Optimality Theory - A conference paper by Joan Bresnan.
Ditransitive constructions : Creole Languages in a Cross-linguistic Perspective – Susanne Michaelis et Martin Haspelmath - A comparison transitive verbs in creole and pidgin languages by Susanne Michaelis and Martin Haspelmath. [PDF]

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