TY - BOOK
T1 - The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages
AU - Siegel, Jeff
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - When people who speak different languages come into sustained contact, new varieties of language sometimes emerge. These are called 'contact varieties. This book deals primarily with contact varieties that have emerged in the Australia-Pacific region within the last 150 years as the result of colonialism. Although the focus is on two particular types of contact varieties, pidgins and creoles, other types are mentioned as well, including cindigenized varieties' and 'language shift varieties. Since all these terms are used in a variety of ways in the literature on language contact, I begin with some definitions.
AB - When people who speak different languages come into sustained contact, new varieties of language sometimes emerge. These are called 'contact varieties. This book deals primarily with contact varieties that have emerged in the Australia-Pacific region within the last 150 years as the result of colonialism. Although the focus is on two particular types of contact varieties, pidgins and creoles, other types are mentioned as well, including cindigenized varieties' and 'language shift varieties. Since all these terms are used in a variety of ways in the literature on language contact, I begin with some definitions.
KW - Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
UR - http://books.google.com.au/books?id=mU2mDikoU4sC&dq
UR - http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an42970927
UR - http://www.oup.com.au/titles/academic/linguistics/9780199216673
M3 - Book
SN - 9780199216666
SN - 9780199216673
T3 - Oxford linguistics
BT - The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - New York, United States of America
ER -