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

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