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Readership: Those studying contact linguistics, pidgin and creole studies, second-language acquisition, and bilingualism, in departments of linguistics, applied linguistics, and anthropology at advanced undergraduate level and above. Suitable for use as course text.
Jeff Siegel, University of New England in Australia
"well written, extensively researched, and brilliantly argued ... superb contribution to the field." - Nicholas Faraclas, Journal of Sociolinguistics
Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1: Introduction 2: Morphological Simplicity in Pidgins 3: Morphological Simplicity and Expansion in Creoles 4: Sources of Morphological Expansion 5: Transfer 6: Constraints on Substrate Influence 7: Substrate Reinforcement 8: Predicting Substrate Influence 9: Decreolization? 10: Conclusion References
