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Publication details [#34887]
Versteegh, Kees. 1984. Pidginization and Creolization: The case of Arabic. John Benjamins. xiii + 194 pp. 
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
This book constitutes a new attempt to resolve the problem of the relationship between classical Arabic and modern Arabic dialects, a problem underlying the current situation of diglossia, by tracing processes of pidginization, creolization and decreolization.