Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and what their political and linguistic s

A compelling argument for why creoles are their own unique entity, which have developed independently of other processes of language development and change.

Creole languages are characteristically associated with a negative image. How has this prestige been formed? And is it as static as the diglossic situation in m

The African slave trade, beginning in the fifteenth century, brought African languages into contact with Spanish and Portuguese, resulting in the Africans' grad

This book examines the emergence of pidgins and creoles and the controversies surrounding current theories about them. Among the questions considered are why th