Language change and language contact in pidgins and creoles
By: edited by John McWhorter.
Contributors: McWhorter, John H.; Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics.
Series: Creole language library,; v. 21
Publisher: J. Benjamins
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 503
Subjects: Pidgin languages -- Congresses.; Creole dialects -- Congresses.; Languages in contact -- Congresses.; Linguistic change -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes examples in various creole and pidgin languages.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fifteen papers selected from those presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held Jan. 1996 in San Diego, Jan. 1997 in Chicago, and June 1997 in London.