What are they?: Jargons, pidgins, creoles, and koines

Mufwene, Salikoko S.

doi:10.1075/cll.19.05muf

In:The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics
Edited by Arthur K. Spears and Donald Winford
[Creole Language Library 19] 1997
► pp. 35–70

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Jargons, pidgins, creoles, and koines

What are they?

Salikoko S. Mufwene

Published online: 6 October 1997

https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.19.05muf

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