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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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Psycholinguistics: Pidgin and Creole languages - An introduction to pidgins and creoles.
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Pidgin and Creole Languages - Notes for a course in pidgin and creole languages. Discusses theories of pidginization, creolization and language contact.
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Pidgins, Creoles, and Constructed Languages - Number words in a variety of pidgins, creoles, and constructed languages.
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Pidgins and Creoles - Brief introduction with three examples of creoles.
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CC: Pidgin Carriers - Introductory article on the topic of pidgin and creole languages.
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Archives of CreoLIST - Searchable archive of the most recent postings to the CreoLIST listserv.
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Selected Publications and Papers on Creole Languages - "Tense/Aspect in Sranan and the creole prototype," "Creoles and Contact Linguistics," and "Irrealis in Sranan: Mood and modality in a radical creole".
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Creolization is a Social, Not a Structural, Process - Paper presented at the International Symposium on "Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages."
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Review of John Holm on Pidgins and Creoles - A brief review of John Holm's "An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles".
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Language Varieties: Definitions - Definitions of "creole", "pidgin", "dialect" and "variety" are given.
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Germanic Creole Numerals - Tables of the names of numerals in various Germanic-Language-based creoles.
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Creole Romance Numerals - Tables of the names of numerals in various Romance-Language-based creoles.
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Pidgins and Creoles - Basic facts about pidgins and creoles with examples.
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Reference Guide for Pidgin and Creole Languages - Bibliographic guide to contact language reference material available at Stanford University.
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The Emergence of Spoken Israeli Hebrew - This paper discusses the parallels to creolization.
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Ethnologue: Language Family Index: Languages of Special Interest - A list of contact languages, pidgins and creoles.
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Linguist List 7.1721: Creolistics - A discussion of whether Afrikaans and Yiddish are creole or creoloid.
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Pidgin - A definition of the term pidgin.
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Creole Language - A definition of the term creole.
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Pidgin Genesis in Optimality Theory - A conference paper by Joan Bresnan.
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Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages - 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.
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Why Do Creoles Have Serial Verb Constructions? - A paper by Eric Schiller.
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