Review published In: Names and Naming
Edited by Philipp Krämer, Eeva M. Sippola and Rachel Selbach
[Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 41:1] 2026
► pp. 169–172
Book review
. French Creoles: A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar [Routledge Comprehensive Grammars]. London: Routledge, 2017. xix + 499 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-24482-5 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315388588
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