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THE STRUCTURE AND STATUS OF PIDGINS AND CREOLES.Arthur K. Spears & Donald Winford (Eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1997. Pp.viii + 461. $90.00 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2000

Elizabeth Grace Winkler
Affiliation:
Columbus State University
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This book brings together some of the foremost scholars in pidgin and creole linguistics toaddress key issues confronting the field—most especially, the inability to providegenerally agreed upon structural classifications of pidgin and creole languages, and in particular,less prototypical varieties like semi-creoles, post-pidgins, and post-creoles.

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2000 Cambridge University Press