"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. Part I presents the theoretical background, with chapters devoted to the definition of ter…
"Proposing a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual societies, this book retraces the investigation of one unique linguistic space, the Creole varieties called Takitaki in multilingual French Guiana. It illustrates how interactional socioling…
This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It offers linguistic and sociohistorical substantiation for a regional Eastern Polynesian-based pidgin, and challenges conventional Eurocentric assumptions about early colon…
Maritime Polynesian Pidgin and pidgin and creole linguistics -- Ethnohistory of speaking as a historical-sociolinguistic methodology -- Emergence, stabilization, and expansion -- Resilience against depidginization and relexification -- Survival in niches -- Linguistic patterns -…
