Archive for December, 2007
Surf the web and try to find: associations for the study of pidgins and creoles conferences on pidgins and creoles (indicate the date and place of the next meeting) journals notable dissertations on any issue in pidgin or creole linguistics A good place to begin your search would be the LinguistList. I will be setting [...]
When talking about pidgins and creoles, the following concepts are important. What do they mean? Don’t forget to state your sources! (no wikipedia please) substrate language superstrate language lexifier ‘common core’ hypothesis monogenesis relexification polygenesis Note: you do not have to define every single term, just pick one.
We touched very briefly on foreigner talk in our first session. What exactly is foreigner talk, and what would be typical instances of simplification in foreigner talk? Don’t forget to state your sources.
In Germany, the term is applied to the simplified German of so-called ‘guest workers’. These were migrant workers mainly from the Mediterranean countries. There is disagreement among scholars (and as indicated by the previous discussion) as to whether GAD should really be termed a pidgin. These doubts arise partly from the questionable stability of GAD. [...]
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