Surf these sites: Adone - The Mental lexicon in SLA and Creole Languages -- This paper makes a new contribution to ongoing research into the nature of the Creole L2 lexicon, its organization and development within a broadly generative framework. Dany Adone, University of Düsseldorf. Archives of CreoLIST -- A web searchable archive of the most recent postings to the CreoLIST listserv. Basque Creoles & Pidgins -- Pidginized contact languages among Basque, Icelandic whalers and Native Americans in Canada. CC is for CCreole -- An excellent introductory article to the topic of pidgin and creole language. Creolization is a Social, Not a Structural, Process -- Paper presented at the International Symposium on "Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages." Ethnologue: Language Family Index: Creole -- A comprehensive list of creole languages throughout the world. Ethnologue: Language Family Index: Languages of Special Interest -- Contact languages, pidgins and creoles. Geographical linguistics -- Diglossia, bilingualism, and language contact. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages -- A scholarly journal of all aspects of pidginization and creolization. Special emphasis is laid on current research in theory and description of pidgin and creole languages, and application of this knowledge to language planning, education, and social reform in creole-speaking societies. A few full-text articles are available on-line. LSA Fields of Linguistics - Languages in Contact -- An article about the dynamics of language contact. Language Contact & Historical Linguistics -- The common methods of historical linguistics for the reconstruction of previous stages or states of languages are the Comparative Method and Internal Reconstruction. Both of these methods break down in cases involving contact between differing languages. Linguistic Balkanization? -- Like Yugoslavia itself, the Serbo-Croatian language is breaking apart, ending a tumultuous century-old marriage of a half-dozen south Slavic dialects. Pidgin and Creole Languages -- Notes for a course in pidgin and creole languages. Discusses theories of pidginization, creolization and language contact. Pidgins and Creoles -- An introduction to the topic, and examples of three creole languages. Pidgins, Creoles, and Constructed Languages -- Number words in a variety of pidgins, creoles, and constructed languages. Psycholinguistics: Pidgin and Creole languages -- An introduction to the topic Reference Guide for Pidgin and Creole Languages -- Bibliographic guide to contact language reference material available at Stanford University. Selected Publications and Papers on Creole Languages -- "Tense/Aspect in Sranan and the creole prototype," "Creoles and Contact Linguistics," and "Irrealis in Sranan: Mood and modality in a radical creole." In .doc format. The Creolist Archives -- The comprehensive collection of all aspects of creole/pidgin studies. Full-text articles, speech and text samples, books and periodicals, a list of researchers and institutions involved in the study of creole languages, the CreoList mailing list, and more. Hosted by the Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University, Sweden.
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