The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Morphological Simplicity in Pidgins 3. Morphological Simplicity and Expansion in Creoles 4. Sources of Morphological Expansion 5. Transfer 6. Constraints on Substrate Influence 7. Substrate Reinforcement 8. Predicting Substrate Influence 9. Decreolization? 10. Conclusion References