Analysis of the linguistics and sociolinguistics of Pidgin and Creole languages.

The field of Pidgin and Creole studies -- $t The development of Pidgin and Creole studies / $r David DeCamp -- $t On the beginnings of Pidgin and Creole studies / $r Guus Meijer and Pieter Muysken -- $g Pidgins, Creoles, and problems of language acquisition and language universals -- $t Pidginization and creolization: Language acquisition and language universals / $r Derek Bickerton -- $t Pidginization, creolization, and language change / $r Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- $t Simplified registers, broken language, and pidginization / $r Charles A. Ferguson and Charles E. DeBose -- $g The Life-Cycle: Pidginization, creolization, and decreolization -- $t Processes of pidginization in African languages / $r Gabriel Manessy -- $t Creolization: Elaboration in the development of Creole French dialects / $r Albert Valdman -- $t The question of prior creolization in Black English / $r John R. Rickford -- $t Processes of pidginization and creolization / $r Robert Le Page -- $g Problems of genesis and development: The historical and social matrix -- $t Toward the reconstruction of the social matrix of Creole language / $r Robert Chaudenson -- $t Recovering Pidgin genesis: Approaches and problems / $r Ian F. Hancock -- $t Lingua franca: Historical problems / $r Keith Whinnom -- $g Creoles and Pidgins and national development -- $t Creole languages and primary education / $r Dennis R. Craig -- $t Pidgins, Creoles, Lingue franche, and national development / $r Stephen A. Wurm -- $g Repertory of Pidgin and Creole Languages / $r Ian F. Hancock.