Part of
Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. SinglerEdited by Cecelia Cutler, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer
[Creole Language Library 53] 2017
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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
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