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Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler
Edited by Cecelia Cutler, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer
[Creole Language Library 53] 2017
► pp. 1–20

Introduction

Article outline
  • 1.Organization of the volume
  • 2.The sociohistorical matrix of creole genesis
    • 2.1Demographic evidence
    • 2.2The diaspora and the diffusion effect
    • 2.3Agency, identity vs. mechanistic factors
  • 3.The origin and the nature of pidgin and creole grammars
    • 3.1Linguistic factors and processes
    • 3.2Complexity and variation
  • References
Published online: 12 July 2017
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