The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa © Cambridge University Press 2004 First published in printed format 2000 ISBN 5-9 eBook (netLibrary) ISBN 0-4 hardback ISBN 1-3 paperback Optimality theoryĪ N I N T RO D U C T I O N TO PIDGINS AND CREOLES JOHN HOLM , Dialectology Second edition . Syntax: structure, meaning and function . Syntactic theory and the structure of English: a minimalist approach . Grammatical roles and relations . Statistics in language studies .
Introduction to the grammar of English . Sociolinguistics Second edition . Morphology Second edition . He is the author of Pidgins and creoles (2 volumes) and has co-edited a number of books, including Focus on the Caribbean and Atlantic meets Pacific: a global view of pidginization and creolization.ĬAMBRIDGE TEXTBOOKS IN LINGUISTICS General editors: .
J O H N H O LM is Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. This much-needed book will be welcomed by students and researchers in linguistics, sociolinguistics, western European languages, anthropology and sociology. His new findings on structural typology, including non-Atlantic creoles, permit a wide-ranging assessment of the nature of restructured languages worldwide. John Holm examines the structure of these pidgins and creoles, the social history of their speakers, and the theories put forward to explain how their vocabularies, sound systems and grammars evolved. Long misunderstood as ‘bad’ versions of European languages, today such varieties as Jamaican Creole English, Haitian Creole French and New Guinea Pidgin are recognized as distinct languages in their own right. Starting with an overview of the field’s basic concepts, it surveys the new languages that developed as a result of the European expansion to the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific.
An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles This textbook is a clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.
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