Pidgins and Creoles Volume II: Reference Survey

by John A. Holm

This second volume of John Holm's Pidgins and Creoles provides an overview of the social-historical development of each of some one hundred known pidgins and creoles. Each variety is grouped according to the language from which it drew its lexicon -- Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, English, African and other languages. John Holm convincingly demonstrates the historical and linguistic reasons for this organization, which also enables the reader...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521359406
• ISBN13: 9780521359405
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"