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The purpose of this volume is to make more accessible, for the use of researchers and students in the field of pidgins and creoles, presentations of the third International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Honolulu, 1975, dealing with English-based creoles. Aside from their documentary value, the ten papers of this volume are of interest for several reasons: they contain interesting data and observations on the languages themselves, in particular Trinidadian Creole, Guyanese Creole, St. Kitts Creole, and Bahamian English.

Creole dialects, English --- Pidgin languages. --- Contact vernaculars --- Hybrid languages --- Jargons --- Pidgeon languages --- Pigeon languages --- Lingua francas --- Languages, Mixed --- English Creole languages --- Negro-English dialects --- Congresses --- Congresses. --- Pidgin languages

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This collection in honor of creolist Charlene Junko Sato (1951-1996) brings together contributions by leading specialists in pidgin-creole studies in three primary areas: Pidgin-Creole Genesis and Development; Attitudes and Education, and Creole Discourse and Literature. The varieties covered come from English, French and Spanish lexical bases and from places as far apart as Africa, Australia, Hawaii, and the Caribbean. Editors Rickford and Romaine introduce each of the papers and provide a biography and bibliography of Sato.

Creolan languages --- Creole dialects. --- Dialects. --- Pidgin languages. --- Creole dialects --- Pidgin languages --- Contact vernaculars --- Hybrid languages --- Jargons --- Pidgeon languages --- Pigeon languages --- Lingua francas --- Languages, Mixed --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Langues créoles --- Pidgin (langues) --- Pidgin-English (langue)

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This work examines the emergence of pidgins and creoles and the controversies surrounding current theories about them. Among the questions considered are why their grammars are simple at the pidgin-creole-postcreole life cycle, and the causes of grammatical innovation. The analysis is supported with examples and case studies.

Pidgin languages --- Creole dialects --- History --- Creolan languages --- Pidgin --- Dialectology --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Languages, Mixed --- Contact vernaculars --- Hybrid languages --- Jargons --- Pidgeon languages --- Pigeon languages --- Lingua francas --- History. --- Pidgin languages - History --- Creole dialects - History

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This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPE's structure and sociolinguistics. Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other West African Pidgins, in particular the development of, and interrelations between, the different varieties of restructured English in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Cameroon. This monograph further includes an overview of the history of Afro-European contact languages in Lower Guinea with special emphasis on the Gold Coast; an outline of the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a description of how and when the transplantation of Sierra Leonean Krio to other West African countries took place; an analysis of the linguistic evidence for the origin, development, and spread of restructured Englishes on the Lower Guinea Coast; an account of the different varieties of GhaPE and their sociolinguistic status in the contemporary linguistic ecology of Ghana; as well as a comprehensive structural description of the "uneducated" variety of GhaPE.

Pidgin English --- Pidgin languages --- History. --- Contact vernaculars --- Hybrid languages --- Jargons --- Pidgeon languages --- Pigeon languages --- Pidgeon English --- Pigeon English --- Lingua francas --- Languages, Mixed --- English language --- Dialects --- History --- E-books --- Pidgin --- Dialectology --- Ghana

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This textbook is a clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being. Starting with an overview of the field's basic concepts, it surveys the new languages that developed as a result of the European expansion to the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Long misunderstood as 'bad' versions of European languages, today such varieties as Jamaican Creole English, Haitian Creole French and New Guinea Pidgin are recognized as distinct languages in their own right. John Holm examines the structure of these pidgins and creoles, the social history of their speakers, and the theories put forward to explain how their vocabularies, sound systems and grammars evolved. His new findings on structural typology, including non-Atlantic creoles, permit a wide-ranging assessment of the nature of restructured languages worldwide. This much-needed book will be welcomed by students and researchers in linguistics, sociolinguistics, western European languages, anthropology and sociology.

Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Creolan languages --- Pidgin --- Creole dialects --- Pidgin languages --- 800.88 --- 800.88 Mengtalen --- Mengtalen --- Contact vernaculars --- Hybrid languages --- Jargons --- Pidgeon languages --- Pigeon languages --- Lingua francas --- Languages, Mixed --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Creole dialects. --- Pidgin languages.