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Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies.
  • A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies
  • Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team
  • Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society
  • Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language

The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies

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Hardback by Silvia Kouwenberg , John Victor Singler

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Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 14/11/2008
    ISBN13: 9780631229025, 978-0631229025
    ISBN10: 0631229027

    Number of Pages: 704

    Non Fiction , Dictionaries, Reference & Language

    Description

    Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies.
    • A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies
    • Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team
    • Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society
    • Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language

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