Creole languages are characteristically associated with a negative image. How has this prestige been formed? And is it as static as the diglossic situation in m

This collection in honor of creolist Charlene Junko Sato (1951-1996) brings together contributions by leading specialists in pidgin-creole studies in three prim

Creole languages are characteristically associated with a negative image. How has this prestige been formed? And is it as static as the diglossic situation in m

Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research on standard language acquisition, little attention has been given to the mechanisms underlying sec

This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on