What Is the Use of Studying Pidgin and Creole Languages?.

Muhlhausler, Peter

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ERIC Number: EJ467088

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Publication Date: 1992

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What Is the Use of Studying Pidgin and Creole Languages?

Muhlhausler, Peter

Language Sciences, v14 n3 p309-17 Jul 1992

Provides a brief history of pidgin and creole studies and describes the importance of these languages in the politics and sociology of linguistic studies. Applications of studies of pidgin and creole, especially those in Queensland (Australia) and Papua New Guinea, to linguistics are outlined. (JP)

Descriptors: Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Foreign Countries, Pidgins

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Australia; Papua New Guinea

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