The book is designed for students of courses with a focus on pidgins, creoles and mixed languages, as well as. This is the first introduction that consistently applies the findings of the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures and systematically includes extended pidgins and mixed languages in the discussion of each linguistic feature. This is the first introduction that consistently applies the findings of the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures and systematically includes extended pidgins and mixed languages in the discussion of each linguistic feature. Part II empirically tests assumptions made about the linguistic characteristics of pidgins and creoles by systematically comparing them with other natural languages in all linguistic domains. Part II empirically tests assumptions made about the linguistic characteristics of pidgins and creoles by systematically comparing them with other natural languages in all linguistic domains. Wardhaugh (2010:75) refers to the main differences between them: 1-A creole has native speakers while pidgin does not have native speakers. He also says that even for speakers whose vocabulary is drawn predominantly from English, syntactic features characteristics of their native languages will.
Part I presents the theoretical background, with chapters devoted to the definition of terms, the sociohistorical settings, theories on the genesis of pidgins and creoles, as well as discussions on language variation and the sociology of language. Second, it includes examples from Arabic-based pidgin and creole languages, most notably Juba Arabic (JA) and (Ki-)Nubi (KN).
Summary: "This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics.
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