Creators: Silvia Kouwenberg, John Victor Singler
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Category: Book

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Pages: 704
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Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 7 x 1.7

ISBN: 0631229027
Dewey Decimal Number: 417.22
EAN: 9780631229025
ASIN: 0631229027

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Product Description
Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies.

A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies
Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team
Accessibly 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
Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language