This volume provides a large-scale, in-depth analysis of locative structures in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English and compares those structures to loc

This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of

The History of English: An Introduction provides a chronological analysis of the linguistic, social, and cultural development of the English language from befor

The study of language contact in the „new" English varieties is frequently influenced by sociolinguistic approaches and reference to substrate languages but m

It is generally assumed that Creole languages form a separate category from the rest of the world’s languages. The papers in this volume, written by internati