Pidgins and Creoles: Current Trends and Prospects

Marc Notes: This collection of papers represents the summation of ideas exchanged at the pidgin and creole interest group session ... at the 1972 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT); Includes bibliographies. Publisher Marketing: A collection of work on pidgins and creoles that includes discussions of the English-derived creole of San Andres Island and the French-derived creole of Cayenne, the theoretical contributions of creolistics to general linguistic theory, decreolization, and generative phonological treatment of a hypothesized English-derived proto-creole.

Contributor Bio:  Hancock, Ian Ian Hancock was born in the United Kingdom of British and Hungarian Romani descent and has been active in the Romani movement since the 1960s. He is professor of Romani Studies and director of the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at the University of Texas at Austin.