Pidgin and Creole References
Please send in recommendations for book titles relevant to the study of Pidgins and Creoles. If the book you are recommending is in the library, do include it’s library signature. Don’t forget to list your book in formal APA style!
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November 11, 2007 at 1:55 pm
There are three books that I’ve seen at a book shop lately. As far as I can tell they seem to give a nice overview of the topic of Pidgins & Creoles – whereas the first one is more a general introduction and the other two, in a way, belong together, i.e. they’re volumes.
1. Holm, John. “An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles.” Cambridge: CUP, 2000.
2. Holm, John. “Pidgins and Creoles Volume I: Theory and Structure.” Cambridge: CUP, 1988.
3. Holm, John. “Pidgins and Creoles Volume II: Reference Survey.” Cambridge: CUP, 1989.
I think they are all quite well arranged – written in a style comparable to George Yule’s “The Study of Language” which you all might know from linguistics I, 1 and I, 2.
November 12, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Here are some books from the library:
Adler, Max K. “Pidgins, Creoles and Lingua Francas. A Sociolinguistic Study”. Hamburg: Buske, 1977.
library signature: HWA3342
Todd, Loreto. “Pidgins and Creoles”. London: Routledge, 1990.
library signature: HWA8960:2
Tryon, Darrell T. “Pacific Pidgins and Creoles. Origins, Growth, and Development.” Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004.
library signature: HWB3232-132
Verhaar, John W. M. (ed.). “Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin: Proceedings of the First International Conference of Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1990.
library signature: ZGB2821-20
November 17, 2007 at 4:51 pm
I was quite surprised how many linguists has written books which deal with our seminar topic. I select some of them, which could be relevant.
Lefebvre, Claire. “Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages.” Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2004.
Mühlhäusler, Peter. “Pidgin and Creole Linguistics.” Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.
Sebba, Mark. “Contact Languages. Pidgins and Creoles.” London: Macmillan, 1997.
Singh, Ishtla. “Pidings and Creoles. An Introduction.” London: Arnold 2000.
November 19, 2007 at 12:18 pm
In addition, here are two more books, which are also in the library.
Arends, Jacques. “Pidgins and Creoles: an Introduction.” Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1995.
signature: L1534 (GB 8)
DeCamp, David. “Pidgins and Creoles: Current trends and Prospects.” Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1974.
signature: M615 (GB 8)
November 21, 2007 at 9:51 pm
I guess this is the only more or less useful book which hasn’t been mentioned yet. ^^;
Meisel, Jürgen M., Langues en Contact: pidgins – creoles = Languages in contact.”Tübingen: Narr, 1977.
November 22, 2007 at 11:18 am
Well,
this is a little bit selfish, but anyway (very funny on first sight):
Fyle, Clifford Nelson. “A Krio-English dictionary”, Oxford: OUP, 1980.
You can get the book at the library of the glottologists. It think it is in GB 3.
See you 🙂 Julian
November 22, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Adone, Dany. “Creolization and Language Change.” Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1994.
Andersen, Roger W. “Pidginization and Creolization as Language Acquisition.” Rowley, Mass: Newbury House, 1983.
Kouwenberg, Silvia. “The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies.” Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
Romaine, Suzanne. “Pidgin & Creole Languages.” London: Longman, 1988.
Books 1 & 2 are available in the UB, no. 3 in the library of the linguists and no. 4 in the one of the anglicists.
November 25, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Schröder, Anne. “Status, functions and prospects of Pidgin English : an empirical approach to language dynamics in Cameroon”.Tübingen: Narr, 2003.
Siganture : CD-S BP Z03003
This one hasn’t been mentioned yet…. 🙂
November 28, 2007 at 5:50 pm
i have found two more books that may be of interest:
Quaas, Enrico.”Reflexion über die Pidgin- und Kreolsprachen – Mit Hilfe der Neurolinguistik und Evolutionsgenetik auf den Spuren der sprachlichen Universalien”. Grin Verlag, 2007.
Gippert, Jost &Himmelmann, Nikolaus & Mosel, Ulrike “Essentials of Language Documentation (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs)” Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2006
November 29, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Gilbert, Glenn G. (ed.). “Pidgin and Creole languages: essays in memory of John E. Reinecke” Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Pr., 1987.
UB, Geschoß 2 / Bereich 4 HWB12678
There is also a journal called “Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages” which probably contains a lot of interesting articles. Available via “Fernleihe”.
December 9, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Mühlhäusler, Peter. “Pidgins and Translation.” In: Papiere zur Linguistik 47, 2., 1992, 103-114.
Mühlhäusler, Peter. “What is the use of studying pidgin and creole languages?” In: Language sciences 14, 3. ,1992, 309-317.
January 30, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Kent Sakoda; Jeff Siegel:
Pidgin Grammar: An Introduction to the Creole Language of Hawai`i
Honolulu: Bess Press 2003
Jeff Siegel:
The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Oxford University Press 2008