Holbrook David Joseph. The classification of the English-lexifier Creole

Publisher: Bafut, Cameroon Publication date: 2006 Number of pages: 73 Pidgin is believed to have started back in the 15th century with the arrival of the Portuguese on the African coast. By the 17th century many other European and African ethnic groups had begun using it in their contacts and transactions with each other and had contributed to its evelopment. By the 19th...

Publisher: SIL International Publication date: 1998 Number of pages: 15 Nicaragua is divided into two major regions: the Pacific, or western side and the Caribbean, or eastern side. The Pacific side of the country is more mountainous and is inhabited predominantly by Spanish speakers. The eastern side is called the Atlantic Coast or Miskito Coast. It is more or less flat and...

Ministry of Education Government of Saint Lucia, 2001. — 345 p. This dictionary is published by the Ministry of Education of St. Lucia to meet the need for an authoritative, affordable reference guide on Creole. The research for this dictionary was done by the SIL team in the years 1984–2000. Several years after the project was begun, the researchers became aware of the work of...

Wawa Press, 2004. — 135 p. — ISBN 0967489709. A fun and exciting look at the history, current status and linguistics of the Chinook Jargon pidgin. This book provides the traveler and resident alike with a unique insight into an area where few modern explorers venture – Native American languages. As custodians of their cultures, these languages are disappearing from the North...

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. — 641 p. — (Typological Studies in Language 95). — ISBN-10 9027206767; ISBN-13 978-9027206763. Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory...

Eastern Digital Resoures, 2005. — 359 p. This book is designed to be used by the English speaker to learn the basics of Haitian Creole. Included are a section on the Creole alphabet with a pronunciation guide, the basic elements of Creole grammar and some commonly used words and phrases. The lexicon of Haitian Creole is derived primarily (90%) from French. This word-base,...