An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles
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A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being. Booknews Building on his earlier volumes for the series, , volumes I and II, Holm (U. of Coimbra, Portugal) presents the most important information relating to spoken languages that fall between two officially recognized languages. He argues that while universal tendencies in adult second-language acquisition carries over into pidginization and creolization, such as dropping inflection, there are a significant number of features that are not attributable to a creole language's superstrate and can be traced to parallel features in its substrate languages. He draws mainly on English-based Atlantic creoles of the Caribbean and west Africa. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
PrefaceList of tablesList of abbreviations and symbolsMaps1Introduction12The development of theory14Before European expansion14Early European expansion16The eighteenth century18The early nineteenth century21Van Name24Schuchardt and his contemporaries27Hesseling and his contemporaries35Reinecke and his contemporaries36Hall and Taylor42Monogenesis44The creole continuum49Universalists again58Substratists again61Other trends643Social factors68The Portuguese-based creoles71Angolar Creole Portuguese72The Spanish-based creoles75Papiamentu Creole Spanish76The Dutch-based creoles80Negerhollands Creole Dutch81The French-based creoles85Haitian Creole French86English-based Atlantic creoles91Jamaican Creole English93English-based Pacific pidgins and creoles95Tok Pisin96Pidgins and creoles based on other languages101Nubi Creole Arabic1024Lexicosemantics106Pidginization and the lexicon107Superstrate sources108Substrate lexical influence113Other lexical sources122Morphological changes127Semantic changes132Change of syntactic function1345Phonology137Continua140Phonotactic rules140Oral vowels145Nasal vowels148Vowel harmony151Consonants153Suprasegmentals1636Syntax171The verb phrase174Forms of 'be'197Serial verbs205The noun phrase212Other function words227Word order2337Conclusions237References241Index267
