New books: Pidgin and Creoles

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Pidgin and Creole Languages:
A Basic Introduction

ALAN S. KAYE (California State University, Fullerton)
& MAURO TOSCO (Istituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli)


This is a short textbook conceived of as a meaty supplement for introductory
linguistic students. It is designed to whet their appetites yielding an
appreciation of the general field of languages in contact.

The tome is particularly sensitive to the processes and stragegies of
pidginization and creolization, and offers data based on the authors' fieldwork
on Arabic pidgins and creoles of East Africa (the Ki-Nubi of Kenya and Uganda)
and the southern Sudan (the city of Juba on the Nile).

Theories of the origin of pidgins are discussed as well as the evolution of
pidgins into creoles and the phenomenon known as decreolization. A major force
of this volume is a focus on the relevance of pidginistics and creolistics for
general and genetic linguistics.

ISBN 3 89586 031 X.
Lincom Textbooks in Linguistics 01.
Ca. 120 pp. USD 40 / EUR 38 / # 29. Course discounts available!




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