Pidgin and Creole ecology and evolution

This chapter outlines a research framework in which pidgin and Creole languages (PCL) are conceptualized as adaptive systems with inherent idiolectal variation, a prerequisite to evolutionary change. Although such variation is present in all languages, PCL evolve in highly heterogeneous and multilin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ansaldo, Umberto, Szeto, Pui Yiu
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Routledge 2020
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86365