B. Blair Wolfert Simon van Hoogenheim in the Berbice slave revolt of ...
Session 2: Introducing pidgins and creoles...E.3S E>GUSH-BASED map Z AS SPANISH-BASED S t Palenquero...
9
Session 2: Introducing pidgins and creoles pidgin (Chinese pron. business) a. contact variety b. restricted in form and function c. native to no one creole nativized pidgin 1/7
Transcript of Session 2: Introducing pidgins and creoles...E.3S E>GUSH-BASED map Z AS SPANISH-BASED S t Palenquero...
Session 2: Introducing pidgins and creoles
pidgin (Chinese pron. business)a. contact varietyb. restricted in form and functionc. native to no one
creole nativized pidgin
1 / 7
Distribution
Romaine (2000, 170–171)
2 / 7
Distribution: Carribean
Romaine (2000, 172–173)3 / 7
Distribution: Pacific
Holm (1989, 513)4 / 7
Tok Pisin road sign
Romaine (2000, 164)
5 / 7
Five English-based varieties
I Tok Pisin [song]I AAVE [cinema]I Nigerian Pidgin [BBC clip]I Jamaican creole [money story]I Singlish [frozen]
6 / 7
Why study pidgins and creoles?
7 / 7
Holm, J. A. (1989). Pidgins and Creoles: Volume II, ReferenceSurvey. Cambridge: CUP.
Romaine, S. (2000). Language in Society. An Introduction toSociolinguistics (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Smith, G. P. and J. Siegel (2013). Tok pisin structure dataset. InS. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, and M. Huber(Eds.), Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language StructuresOnline. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for EvolutionaryAnthropology.
Winford, D. (2002). Creoles in the context of contact linguistics.In G. Gilbert (Ed.), Pidgin and creole linguistics in the 21stcentury, pp. 287–354. New York: Peter Lang.
8 / 7
