Are there common specific patterns in the Tense-Mood-Aspect systems of creoles? Do creoles constitute a structural type of language? This...

"Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles aims to introduce the reader to the exciting and important field of pidgin and creole...

This first volume of Holm's major survey of pidgins and creoles provides an up-to-date and readable introduction to a field...

This textbook is a clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being. Starting with...

Using examples from local Pidgin literature, University of Hawai'i linguists Sakoda and Siegel explain the origins of Pidgin, its pronunciation...