SUL Linguistics home Pidgin and Creole Languages A Guide to Green Library collections Contents I. Introduction II. Getting Started III. Classification and Subject Headings IV. Overviews and Introductions V. Theories, Problems, Controversies VI. Bibliographies & Indexes/Abstracts VII. Theses VIII. Maps, Catalogs, Checklists IX. Periodicals and Newsletters X. Monographic Series XI. Dictionaries ...

CC: Pidgin Carriers (19 July 1998) When two groups of humans who don't share a language come together, they generally try to communicate. Often, the result is a pidgin a simplified language that combines features of the groups' languages while leaving out the more difficult parts, allowing the groups to speak to each other. This sort of lingua franca is often used to conduct trade. (The word ...

Numbers in Pidgins, Creoles, and Constructed Languages Pidgins and Creoles Arabic-based Turku way tinen talata arba kamza site saba tamani tise ashara Nubi wai tinin talata arba khamsa sita saba tamanya tisa ashara Motu-based Hiri Motu ta rua toi hani ima tauratoi (sikisi) hitu taurahani (et) taurahani-ta gwauta Zulu-based Fanagalo wan tu tri fo fayif sikis seven eyit nayin ten Naga-based Naga ...

PIDGINS AND CREOLES INTRODUCTION Can you guess what language this is These lines are taken from a famous comic strip in Papua New Guinea: Sapos yu kaikai planti pinat, bai yu kamap strong olsem phantom. Fantom, yu pren tru bilong mi. Inap yu ken helpim mi nau Fantom, em i go we Translation: 'If you eat plenty of peanuts, you will come up strong like the phantom.' 'Phantom, you are a true ...

Creole Romance Numerals | Balto-Slavic | Celtic | Germanic | Hellenic | Indo-Iranian | Italic | Other IndoEuropean | | Northern Italian | Central Italian | Southern Italian | French | Spanish | Portuguese | Ladin | Rumauntsch | Occitan | Franco-Provencal | Occitan and Franco-Provencal In Italy | Sardinian | Friulan / Vegliot | Rumanian | Creole Romance | French Creoles: Cajun Creole Trinidadian ...

Next: Sociolinguistic Factors Up: No Title Previous: No Title Pidgin and Creole Languages Originally thought of as incomplete, broken, corrupt, not worthy of serious attention. Pidgins still are marginal: in origin (makeshift, reduced in structure), in attitudes toward them (low prestige); in our knowledge of them. Some quick definitions: Pidgin language (origin in Engl. word `business' ) is ...

Obviously intended to be a textbook for linguistics students, but the bulk of it is general enough to be of wider appeal...

Archives of CREOLIST ` N.B.: This is a Mirror of the CREOLIST List at CREOLIST@LING.SU.SE, whose archives are at http://www.ling.su.se/Creole/. It exists only to provide a web-searchable archive of the material posted there. If you wish to subscribe to it, you can do so here. The CreoLIST Mailing List (Mirror) Search the archives Manage the list (list owners only) July 2002 June 2002 May 2002 ...

Germanic Creoles Numerals | Balto-Slavic | Celtic | Germanic | Hellenic | Indo-Iranian | Italic | Other IndoEuropean | | English | Scots | Frisian | North Frisian | Dutch | Low German | High German | Upper German | Scandinavian | Germanic Creoles | Pidgins and Creoles of the Caribbean and Americas: Jamaican Creole Neo Solomonic Hawaiian Japanese Pidgin Early Hawaiian Creole 1 wan w n wan wan wan ...

Pidgin Genesis in Optimality Theory1 Joan Bresnan Stanford University Proceedings of the LFG98 Conference The University of Queensland, Brisbane Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (Editors) 1998 CSLI Publications http://www-csli.stanford.edu/publications/ Pronouns in pidgins Pidgins arise in certain contact situations as a conventionalized means of communication between groups of adult speakers ...

PIDGIN and CREOLE Background Information This page was designed for a psycholinguistics class project at the University of Oregon. The goal is to get information about some creole and pidgin languages, look at some history of particular languages, and tie them into a main theme. Grammar and innateness in relation to the topics will be looked at. Definitions Pidgin and creole are languages that ...