Pidgins, Creoles, and Constructed Languages
Number words in a variety of pidgins, creoles, and constructed languages.
Psycholinguistics: Pidgin and Creole languages
An introduction to pidgins and creoles.
Reference Guide for Pidgin and Creole Languages
Bibliographic guide to contact language reference material available at Stanford University.
Review of John Holm on Pidgins and Creoles
A brief review of John Holm's "An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles".
Selected Publications and Papers on Creole Languages
"Tense/Aspect in Sranan and the creole prototype," "Creoles and Contact Linguistics," and "Irrealis in Sranan: Mood and modality in a radical creole".
Unserdeutsch Language
A brief description of Unserdeutch, a German-based pidgin spoken in what is now Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.
Unserdeutsch (Rabaul Creole German)
Forum and information on Unserdeutch, the German-based creole formerly spoken in Rabaul.
Why Do Creoles Have Serial Verb Constructions?
A paper by Eric Schiller.
Accounting for Creole Reflexive Forms
Full text of a 2001 paper by Bernd Heine. [PDF]
Archives of CreoLIST
Searchable archive of the most recent postings to the CreoLIST listserv.
Attributive Possession in Creoles
Full text of a 2000 paper by Heine and Kuteva. [PDF]
CC: Pidgin Carriers
Introductory article on the topic of pidgin and creole languages.
Creole Language
A definition of the term creole.
Creole Romance Numerals
Tables of the names of numerals in various Romance-Language-based creoles.
Creolization is a Social, Not a Structural, Process
Paper presented at the International Symposium on "Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages."
Ditransitive constructions : Creole Languages in a Cross-linguistic Perspective – Susanne Michaelis et Martin Haspelmath
A comparison transitive verbs in creole and pidgin languages by Susanne Michaelis and Martin Haspelmath. [PDF]
Germanic Creole Numerals
Tables of the names of numerals in various Germanic-Language-based creoles.
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
A journal of all aspects of pidginization and creolization. A few full-text articles are available on-line. There is also an extensive glossary of creolist terminology.
Language Varieties: Definitions
Definitions of "creole", "pidgin", "dialect" and "variety" are given.
Linguist List 7.1721: Creolistics
A discussion of whether Afrikaans and Yiddish are creole or creoloid.
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