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: 2000
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng; mul
Number of pages: 503
Subjects: Pidgin languages -- Congresses; Creole dialects -- Congresses; Languages in contact -- Congresses; Linguistic change -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: 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

Includes bibliographical references and index

Includes examples in various creole and pidgin languages