The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies by Silvia Kouwenber... - 9780631229025

The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole StudiesAuthor(s): Silvia Kouwenberg, John Victor Singler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9780631229025, 978-0631229025\nSynopsis\nFeaturing an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies.\n\nA comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies\nBrings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team\nAccessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society\nProvides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, e