Both pidgins and creoles are assumed to have small phoneme inventories, to allow only
simple syllable structures and to lack tone, while mixed languages are assumed to either …

Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common.
This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic …

Die beiden arabischen Kreolsprachen Juba Arabic (im Südsudan) und Kinubi (vor allem in
Uganda und Kenia) stehen in dem Ruf, wenig Spuren der angestammten Sprachen ihrer …

This chapter aims at analysing the results of language contact involving Arabic in the light of
Van Coetsem's psycholinguistic principle of language dominance. It shows the outcomes of …

In this study I provide a description of the morphosyntax and the functions of demonstratives
in Juba Arabic and Ki-Nubi, two closely related Arabic-based contact languages. The study …

Languagesarefunctionallyadaptedtotheirus…' needsinavarietyofways. This can be seen in a
range of different domains, such as (i) text genres,(ii) social structure and (iii) the ecological …

The paper explores the morphosyntax of place names (PNs) and common nouns (CNs) in
Goal and Source constructions in pidgins and creoles. Based on 64 sample languages with …

Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded
introduction to contact linguistics. Rather than taking a traditional focus on the outcomes of …