session 2: introducing pidgins and creoles · (eds.), atlas of pidgin and creole language...

Session 2: Introducing pidgins and creoles

pidgin (Chinese pron. business)a. contact varietyb. restricted in form and functionc. native to no one

creole nativized pidgin

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Distribution

Romaine (2000, 170–171)

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Distribution: Carribean

Romaine (2000, 172–173)3 / 7

Distribution: Pacific

Holm (1989, 513)4 / 7

Tok Pisin road sign

Romaine (2000, 164)

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Five English-based varieties

I Tok Pisin [song]I AAVE [cinema]I Nigerian Pidgin [BBC clip]I Jamaican creole [money story]I Singlish [frozen]

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Why study pidgins and creoles?

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Holm, J. A. (1989). Pidgins and Creoles: Volume II, ReferenceSurvey. Cambridge: CUP.

Romaine, S. (2000). Language in Society. An Introduction toSociolinguistics (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Smith, G. P. and J. Siegel (2013). Tok pisin structure dataset. InS. M. Michaelis, P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath, and M. Huber(Eds.), Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language StructuresOnline. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for EvolutionaryAnthropology.

Winford, D. (2002). Creoles in the context of contact linguistics.In G. Gilbert (Ed.), Pidgin and creole linguistics in the 21stcentury, pp. 287–354. New York: Peter Lang.

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