"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…
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 -…
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…
This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin.