Pidgin and Creole Languages
Selected essays by Hugo Schuchardt

This volume will be welcomed by a wide range of linguists and anthropologists.

Schuchardt Hugo (Author), Glenn G. Gilbert (Edited and translated by)

9780521108904, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 April 2009

168 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1 cm, 0.26 kg

Hugo Schuchardt was effectively the founder of the flourishing field of creole studies. He assembled an enormous corpus of source-material in the form of texts, transcripts, word-lists and dictionaries and between 1880 and 1920 published the results with his own commentaries in a series of reviews and articles. Professor Gilbert has edited and translated a coherent selection of the most important essays, comprising Schuchadrt's studies of the English-based creoles and two of his major theoretical papers on the Lingua Franca and the Language of the Saramacca Negroes in Surinam. His introduction surveys Schuchardt's work as a whole and analyses his more specific contributions in these selections. The volume will be welcomed by a wide range of linguists and anthropologists.

1. Introduction
2. Melanesian English (1883c and 1889b)
3. Notes on the English of American Indians: Cheyenne, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pueblo, Sioux and Wyandot (1889a)
4. Indo-English (1891)
5. The Lingua Franca (1909a)
6. The language of the Saramacca Negroes in Surinam (1914)
Bibliography
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Sociolinguistics [CFB]