Names and Naming
Edited by Philipp Krämer, Eeva Sippola and Rachel Selbach
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 41:1 (2026) v, 172 pp.
BIC SubjectsLinguistics/Pidgins & Creoles
New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole: Standardization, grammar and language use
Edited by Muhsina Alleesaib and Julie Lefort
In the South-West Indian Ocean, Mauritius and Reunion are part of a group of islands where French-based Creoles are spoken. In spite of their geographical proximity, Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole are strikingly different in their morphosyntax. The first part of this volume describes some… read more[Contact Language Library, 61] 2025. vi, 326 pp.
Australian Contact Languages
Edited by Carmel O'Shannessy, Denise Angelo and Jane Simpson
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:1 (2024) vi, 311 pp.
Language Contact with Chinese
Edited by Zhiming Bao
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:1 (2023) vi, 206 pp.
Approaches to Variation in Creole Studies
Edited by Isabelle Léglise, Bettina Migge and Nicolas Quint
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 36:1 (2021) v, 219 pp.
Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken
Edited by Norval Smith, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh
Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of… read more[Contact Language Library, 57] 2020. ix, 400 pp.
Palenquero and Spanish in Contact: Exploring the interface
John M. Lipski
Bilingual speakers are normally aware of what language they are speaking or hearing; there is, however, no widely accepted consensus on the degree of lexical and morphosyntactic similarity that defines the psycholinguistic threshold of distinct languages. This book focuses on the Afro-Colombian… read more[Contact Language Library, 56] 2020. xvii, 318 pp.
Cameroon Pidgin English: A comprehensive grammar
Miriam Ayafor and Melanie Green
Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE) is an English-lexified Atlantic expanded pidgin/creole spoken in some form by an estimated 50% of Cameroon’s population, primarily in the anglophone west regions, but also in urban centres throughout the country. Primarily a spoken language, CPE enjoys a vigorous oral… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 20] 2017. xxi, 314 pp.
Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches
Edited by Peter Bakker, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva Sippola
This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and insights into the relationships between creoles and non-creoles, creoles and other contact varieties, and between creoles and lexifier… read more
Orality, Identity, and Resistance in Palenque (Colombia): An interdisciplinary approach
Edited by Armin Schwegler, Bryan Kirschen and Graciela Maglia
Located near Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Palenque is a former Afro-Hispanic maroon community that has recently attracted much national and international attention. The authors of this collection examine Palenque’s linguistic, geographic, and cultural origins from interdisciplinary and… read more[Contact Language Library, 54] 2017. xvii, 323 pp.
Afro-Peruvian Spanish: Spanish slavery and the legacy of Spanish Creoles
Sandro Sessarego
The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the genesis of Spanish creoles in the Americas in a broader sense. In order to provide a more concrete answer to… read more
Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu
Claire Lefebvre
This book is about the functional categories of three Caribbean creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian Creole and Papiamentu with two specific goals. The first one is to evaluate the respective contribution of the source languages to the functional categories of these three creoles. The second is to evaluate… read more[Creole Language Library, 50] 2015. xvii, 386 pp.
Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages: An Introduction
Viveka Velupillai
This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics. Part I presents the theoretical background, with chapters devoted to the definition of terms, the… read more[Creole Language Library, 48] 2015. xxvii, 599 pp.
Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles
Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:2 (2014) v, 253 pp.
Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters
Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller, Anders Holmberg and Mohammad Almoaily
Most of what we know about pidgin and creole languages is the result of research into contact languages that developed as a consequence of European expansion into Africa and the Caribbean. The narrow focus on European lexifier and West African substrate languages has resulted in insufficient… read more[Creole Language Library, 47] 2014. v, 178 pp.
Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology
Edited by Parth Bhatt and Tonjes Veenstra
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 internationally renowned scholars in the field of Creole studies, seek to explore more deeply this commonly held assumption by comparing the… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 57] 2013. v, 279 pp.
Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages: The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles
Edited by Nicholas Faraclas
This book is a ‘must read’ for those who are looking for fresh perspectives on the process of creolization of language. Focusing on peoples whose agency has too often been rendered invisible in colonial and neo-colonial history and on voices which have too often been silenced in linguistic accounts… read more[Creole Language Library, 45] 2012. xiii, 246 pp.
Ibero-Asian Creoles: Comparative Perspectives
Edited by Hugo C. Cardoso, Alan N. Baxter and Mário Pinharanda-Nunes
Starting in 1498, contact between Ibero-Romance and Asian languages has taken place along a vast stretch of the coastlines of continental and insular Asia, producing a string of contact varieties which are among the least visible in the field of Creole Studies. This volume, the first one dedicated… read more[Creole Language Library, 46] 2012. xi, 375 pp.
Pidgins and Creoles in Asia
Edited by Umberto Ansaldo
This book shifts the focus of Pidgin and Creole Studies from the better-known Atlantic/Caribbean contexts to the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea and Mongolia. By looking at Asian contexts before and after Western colonial expansion, we offer readers insights into language contact in historical… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 38] 2012. ix, 170 pp.
Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology
Edited by Claire Lefebvre
Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 95] 2011. ix, 626 pp.
Creoles in Education: An appraisal of current programs and projects
Edited by Bettina Migge, Isabelle Léglise and Angela Bartens
This volume offers a first survey of projects from around the world that seek to implement Creole languages in education. In contrast to previous works, this volume takes a holistic approach. Chapters discuss the sociolinguistic, educational and ideological context of projects, policy developments… read more[Creole Language Library, 36] 2010. vii, 356 pp.
Readings in Creole Studies
Edited by Ian F. Hancock
Creole studies embrace a wide range is disciplines: history, ethnography, geography, sociology, etc. The phenomenon of creolization has come to be recognized as widespread; creolization presupposes contact, and that is a human universal. The present anthology discusses social, historical and… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 2] 1979. xiv, 352 pp.