Book of Donmon Teith

The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages offers a state-of-the-art collection of original contributions in the area of Pidgin and Creole studies. P

A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.

This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of

An overview of the socio-historical development of some one hundred different pidgins and creoles.

The focus of this study is upon those pidgins and creoles which are English based and which have arisen since the fifteenth century. The book examines the wides