Handout for SARS 523
Multilingual Education in South/Southeast Asia
H. Schiffman, Instructor
Spring 2005
Pidgin and Creole Languages
Sociolinguistic Factors
Depidginization, Decreolization, absorption, the post-Creole continuum.
Structure
Numbers of Speakers
Origin Theories
Some theoretical possibilities:
Problems with these hypotheses:
Strong Proponents of Polygenesis:
Objections to Polygenesis
Strong defense of Monogenesis:
Post-Creole Continuum
Educational Policy
Harold Schiffman
last modified 12/01/00 EST 2000