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Sociolinguistics --- Lingua francas --- Pidgin languages --- Creole dialects --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Languages, Mixed --- Contact vernaculars --- Hybrid languages --- Jargons --- Pidgeon languages --- Pigeon languages --- Linguae francae --- Trade languages --- Vehicular languages --- Languages in contact --- Creole dialects. --- Lingua francas. --- Pidgin languages.

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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.

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This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly argue for controversial positions.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Linguistics / General --- Pidgin languages --- Creole dialects --- Languages in contact --- Linguistic change --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Languages, Mixed --- Contact vernaculars --- Hybrid languages --- Jargons --- Pidgeon languages --- Pigeon languages --- Lingua francas --- Historical linguistics --- Language and languages