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» A Note on the Pronominal System of Arafundi-Enga Pidgin - A short discussion of the social background and pronominal system of a pidginization of two Papuan languages.
» Archives of CreoLIST - Searchable archive of the most recent postings to the CreoLIST listserv.
» CC: Pidgin Carriers - Introductory article on the topic of pidgin and creole languages.
» Creole Language - A definition of the term creole.
» Creole Romance Numerals - Tables of the names of numerals in various Romance-Language-based creoles.
» 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: Languages of Special Interest - A list of contact languages, pidgins and creoles.
» Germanic Creole Numerals - Tables of the names of numerals in various Germanic-Language-based creoles.
» Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages - A journal of all aspects of pidginization and creolization. A few full-text articles are available on-line. There is also an extensive glossary of creolist terminology.
» Language Varieties: Definitions - Definitions of "creole", "pidgin", "dialect" and "variety" are given.
» Linguist List 7.1721: Creolistics - A discussion of whether Afrikaans and Yiddish are creole or creoloid.
» Pidgin - A definition of the term pidgin.
» Pidgin Genesis in Optimality Theory - A conference paper by Joan Bresnan.
» Pidgin and Creole Languages - Notes for a course in pidgin and creole languages. Discusses theories of pidginization, creolization and language contact.
» Pidgins and Creoles - Basic facts about pidgins and creoles with examples.
» Pidgins, Creoles, and Constructed Languages - Number words in a variety of pidgins, creoles, and constructed languages.
» Psycholinguistics: Pidgin and Creole languages - An introduction to pidgins and creoles.
» Reference Guide for Pidgin and Creole Languages - Bibliographic guide to contact language reference material available at Stanford University.
» Review of John Holm on Pidgins and Creoles - A brief review of John Holm's "An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles".
» 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".
» The Emergence of Spoken Israeli Hebrew - This paper discusses the parallels to creolization.
» Why Do Creoles Have Serial Verb Constructions? - A paper by Eric Schiller.