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Peer reviewedHolm, John – Language Sciences, 1992
Compares studies of English-based creoles in Atlantic with work on pidgins and creoles in Pacific to examine the core of lexicon that cannot be traced to current standard English and historical relationship between languages. The lexical base of Pacific varieties was both English and English-based creoles of the Atlantic. Grammatical and lexical…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
