LIN 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Inflection, Jargon, Grammar
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Pidgins, creoles & language change relations) social use of language can impact on language structure. Because they are used for restricted purposes to convey a minimum amount of information. We have seen that pidgins are excellent (cid:494)laboratories(cid:495) for examining the extent to which the pidgins tend to have . No or little inflectional morphology (endings on words which signal grammatical. A shallow grammar (i. e. no or few resources for forming complex sentences) grammatically simple, they do not necessarily stay that way . Pidgins and creoles are often referred to as (cid:498)organic languages(cid:499). Like all languages, they are variable and can change in response to shifting social. In spite of the fact that pidgins are often characterized as lexically impoverished and. Linguistic change in pidgins and creoles is schematized in terms of the life-cycle model. circumstances. The life-cycle model recognizes that pidgins and creoles are part of a development continuum. complexity.
