RaphaCam

RaphaCam

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  • FinnJames
    Yes, I did learn a bit of Tok Pisin, though I've never been to PNG. Here's a link to a little textbook I put together for students when I was teaching a course in English-based pidgins and creoles:
    https://archive.org/details/WholeBook/mode/2up
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    RaphaCam
    Cool, thank you! What other creoles have you studied?
    FinnJames
    FinnJames
    Like any linguist (in the sense of academic who studies how languages work) I've looked at many creoles -- Papiamento from Curacao, the French creole of Mauritius, Jamaican, Sanan English creole from Surinam. But Tok Pisin is the only one I actually learned how to speak well enough to hold a conversation in.
    RaphaCam
    RaphaCam
    That's very cool. I presume that's because creoles give us an insight on how languages are born? What are your thoughts on Derek Bickerton? I was recently reading him.
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