Pidgins versus Creoles and Pidgincreoles

The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 130-157

  Bakker, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Caribbean creoles showing Subject Verb Object (SVO); Expressing tense, mood, and aspect (TMA); Ideophones forming word class not common in European languages; Life cycle model of pidgins and creoles; Morphology I inflection; Nativization of pidgins; Pidgins and creoles and nativization; Pidgins versus creoles and pidgincreoles; Question words, prepositions, word class markers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955667677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444305982.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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