Review published In: Australian Contact Languages
Edited by Carmel O'Shannessy, Denise Angelo and Jane Simpson
[Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:1] 2024
► pp. 293–301
Book review
. Variation rolls the dice. A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene. Enoch Oladé Aboh & Cécil B. Vigouroux. [Contact Language Library 59]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2021. xiv + 350 pp. https://doi.org/10.1075/coll.59
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Published online: 5 April 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.00141.mat
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Article outline
- Language ecology
- Idiolects
- Feature pools
- Creoles as language type
- The predictability of a roll of the dice
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