Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Main information
Editors
ORCID logoBettina Migge | University College Dublin
Anthony P. Grant | Edge Hill University
Book Review Editors
ORCID logoFabiola Henri | University at Buffalo—SUNY & Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, UMR7110
John H. McWhorter | Columbia University
Associate Editor Emeritus
Armin Schwegler | University of California, Irvine
Honorary Editors
Glenn Gilbert | Southern Illinois University, Emeritus
Donald Winford | The Ohio State University

The Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JPCL) aims to provide a forum for the scholarly study of pidgins, creoles, and other contact language varieties, from multi-disciplinary perspectives. The journal places special emphasis on current research devoted to empirical description, theoretical issues, and the broader implications of the study of contact languages for, among others, theories of language development, use, change and acquisition. The editors also encourage contributions on pragmatics and language ideologies, and that explore the application of linguistic research to language planning, education, and social reform, as well as studies that examine the role of contact languages in the social life and culture, including the literature and other media, of their communities.

JPCL publishes its articles Online First.

The journal has a companion series of books, the Contact Language Library , formerly Creole Language Library.

ISSN: 0920-9034 | E-ISSN: 1569-9870
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl
Latest articles

21 November 2024

  • Is variation a sign of decreolization? Exploring decreolization through diachronic analysis of variation in ‘doz’ and singular pronouns in Guyanese Creolese
    Emma Kainz
  • 18 November 2024

  • On the orthography of Philippine Creole Spanish in Zamboanga
    Gefilloyd L. De Castro
  • 28 October 2024

  • Evidence from bare verbs for the future versus non-future split in Creoles
    Paula Prescod | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 435–462
  • 24 October 2024

  • Umberto Ansaldo Miriam Meyerhoff (Eds.). 2021. The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages
    Reviewed by Stephanie Hackert | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 472–478
  • 10 October 2024

  • Felicity Meakins Carmel O’Shannessy (Editors). 2016. Loss and Renewal: Australian languages since Colonisation
    Reviewed by Stéphane Goyette | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 468–471
  • 3 September 2024

  • The rhotics of the Salvador, Bahia variety of Brazilian Portuguese
    Trey Jagiella J. Clancy Clements
  • Speaking with attitude : Language attitudes in comic literature in Macanese Creole
    João Pedro Oliveira
  • 27 August 2024

  • Claire Bowern . 2023. The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages
    Reviewed by William A. Foley | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 463–467
  • 5 July 2024

  • Lingua francas as evidence of standard language ideology in historical perspective
    Josh Brown
  • 28 June 2024

  • Selectional factors in pronominal system formation : Evidence from Fiji’s two pidgins
    Brian Hayden
  • 15 April 2024

  • Toward a typology of Australian contact languages
    Carmel O’Shannessy , Denise Angelo Jane Simpson | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 1–33
  • 5 April 2024

  • Irina Popova Tokio Takata . 2017. Slovari Kyakhtinskogo Pidzhina
    Reviewed by Anthony P. Grant | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 307–311
  • Yolanda Rivera-Castillo . 2022. A description of Papiamentu: a Creole Language of the Caribbean Area
    Reviewed by Anthony P. Grant | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 302–306
  • Enoch Oladé Aboh Cécil B. Vigouroux (eds.). 2021. Variation rolls the dice. A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene
    Reviewed by Yaron Matras | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 293–301
  • Nala H. Lee . 2022. A grammar of Baba Malay
    Reviewed by Peter Slomanson | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 286–292
  • 8 March 2024

  • Indigenous Language Ecologies framework : A tool for inserting Indigenous contact languages and their speakers into policy in Australia
    Denise Angelo | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 34–70
  • 27 February 2024

  • Verb marking and classification of adjectival predicates in creoles
    Paula Prescod | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 250–285
  • 22 February 2024

  • Noun phrases in Kwéyòl Donmnik
    Joy P. G. Peltier
  • 12 February 2024

  • Reported language choice and usage of teenage Mauritians : A sociolinguistic perspective
    Anu Bissoonauth Gaetano Rando
  • 9 February 2024

  • Source language influences in the Australian mixed language, Light Warlpiri
    Carmel O’Shannessy | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 125–148
  • 6 February 2024

  • After 1788 : Contact varieties in the first sixty years of Australia’s colonisation
    Jane Simpson | JPCL 39:1 (2024) p. 71
  • 19 January 2024

  • Remarks on the syntax of bare nouns in Papiamentu
    Luis López , Rodi Laanen , Charlotte Pouw M. Carmen Parafita Couto
  • 18 January 2024

  • Pacific transformations of the ‘Country of Babel’ : The legacy of a colonial language myth in nationalist discourses on Hawai‘i Creole and Tok Pisin
    Christoph Neuenschwander
  • 11 January 2024

  • ‘It runs in the family’ : Reconstructing the kinship terminology of Tugu Creole Portuguese
    Raan-Hann Tan Silvio Moreira De Sousa
  • 19 December 2023

  • The early Baba Malay continuum
    Nala H. Lee | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 339–364
  • 14 December 2023

  • Event plurality and the verbal suffix ‑(a)bad in Australian Kriol
    Connor Brown Maïa Ponsonnet | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 187–218
  • 11 December 2023

  • Alyawarr English : A new contact language of Central Australia
    Sally Dixon | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 149–186
  • 1 December 2023

  • Predicting the development of Papiamento and Dutch word decoding efficiency in the Dutch Caribbean
    Melissa van der Elst-Koeiman , Eliane Segers , Ronald Severing Ludo Verhoeven
  • 20 November 2023

  • Recognising Yarrie Lingo, the creole language of Yarrabah community in far north-eastern Queensland Australia
    Bernadine Yeatman Denise Angelo | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 219–249
  • 16 October 2023

  • Adjective phrase fronting in the Malacca Creole Portuguese noun phrase : A vestige of South Asian substrate?
    Alan N Baxter
  • 3 October 2023

  • On the etymology and distribution of verb forms in Arabic-based pidgins : A usage-based approach
    Imed Louhichi
  • 2 October 2023

  • What can the stories of a frog tell us about motion event description in Gulf Pidgin Arabic?
    Imed Louhichi | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 313–338
  • 17 August 2023

  • Empiricism against imperialism : Science, dogma and the neocolonial heritage of creole studies. Reflections on
    Peter Bakker
  • A multidimensional perspective on the acquisition of subject-verb dependencies by Haitian-Creole speaking children : Insights from comprehension and production
    Isabelle Barrière , Blandine Joseph , Katsiaryna Aharodnik , Sarah Kresh , Guetjens Prince Fleurio , Géraldine Legendre Thierry Nazzi
  • 14 August 2023

  • Reciprocal constructions : Multilingual contact favors borrowing of transparent structures
    Kofi Yakpo | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 365–393
  • 13 July 2023

  • Skepi Creole Dutch : The Rodschied Papers
    Bart Jacobs Mikael Parkvall | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 394–408
  • 11 July 2023

  • Orthography, ideology and the codification of Mauritian Creole : The implications of decreasing linguistic Abstand
    Tejshree Auckle | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 409–434
  • Language use, language attitudes, and identity in Aruba : Is Aruban Papiamento under threat?
    Ellen-Petra Kester Samantha Buijink | JPCL 38:2 (2023) pp. 389–430
  • 30 June 2023

  • The third space in the fourth column : Revisiting the role of agency in the formation of Creoles
    Felicity Meakins | JPCL 38:2 (2023) pp. 431–445
  • 21 June 2023

  • A new view on ‘Yilan Creole’
    Gan-ling Tan | JPCL 38:2 (2023) pp. 320–388
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    Editorial Board
    ORCID logoPeter Bakker | Aarhus University
    Zhiming Bao | National University of Singapore
    Marlyse Baptista | University of Michigan
    Alan N. Baxter | Universidade Federal da Bahia
    ORCID logoJ. Clancy Clements | Indiana University
    Viviane Déprez | Rutgers University
    ORCID logoDagmar Deuber | Universität Münster
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    Michele Kennedy | The University of the West Indies, Jamaica
    John M. Lipski | The Pennsylvania State University
    Victor Manfredi | Boston University
    Charles C. Mann | Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
    ORCID logoStephen Matthews | The University of Hong Kong
    ORCID logoFelicity Meakins | University of Queensland
    ORCID logoJonathan Owens | University of Bayreuth
    ORCID logoIngo Plag | Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
    Paul T. Roberge | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & Stellenbosch University
    ORCID logoJeff Siegel | University of New England, Australia
    ORCID logoEeva M. Sippola | University of Helsinki
    Editorial Advisory Committee
    Eric A. Anchimbe | Universität Bayreuth
    ORCID logoMargot van den Berg | University of Utrecht
    Anne-Marie Brousseau | University of Toronto
    ORCID logoAna Deumert | University of Cape Town
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    Susanne Maria Michaelis | Universität Leipzig
    Unn Gyda Næss | Norwegian Defence University College
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    Authors wishing to submit a contribution for publication in JPCL are requested to do so through the journal’s online submission and manuscript tracking site . Please consult the Short Guide to EM for Authors and the journal's Guidelines before you submit your paper.

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    bettinamigge at ucd.ie granta at edgehill.ac.uk

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    Subjects

    Main BIC Subject

    CF/2ZP: Linguistics/Pidgins & Creoles

    Main BISAC Subject

    LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General