This innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture i

A compelling argument for why creoles are their own unique entity, which have developed independently of other processes of language development and change.

This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and multi-ethnolects. It also approaches contact languages from tw

For review see: Peter Bakker, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 70, no. 1 & 2 (1996); p. 190-192.