LIN 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Not I, Tok Pisin, Haitian Creole
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Both pidgins and creoles are contact languages. They arise as a result of contact between two or more existing languages. A language which conventionally has no native speakers. It arises in multilingual settings where groups of people require a common language or lingua franca for restricted communicative purposes. Speakers of pidgins do not share a common language. Because pidgins are initially used in restricted domains for limited functions, and to convey a minimum of information, they have a simplified grammatical structure and vastly reduced vocabulary or wordstock. Pidgins have typically arisen in a number of different social contexts including: Usually defined as a pidgin that has acquired a community of native speakers (it is a nativized pidgin). Traditionally, nativization is viewed as a requirement for creolization. More recently, some scholars have adopted a broader definition of what a creole is, and.
