Pidgins and Creoles: Current Trends and Prospects

by David DeCamp (Editor), Ian Hancock (Editor)

Overview

A collection of work on pidgins and creoles that includes discussions of the English-derived creole of San Andres Island and the French-derived creole of Cayenne, the theoretical contributions of creolistics to general linguistic theory, decreolization, generative phonological treatment of a hypothesized English-derived proto-creole, and the little-known Shelta language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878402069
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
Publication date:	12/01/1974
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.36(d)
Age Range:	18 Years