In sociolinguistic terms, Tok Pisin is an expanded pidgin currently undergoing creolization. |
The sign languages in use in the EU are more difficult to classify into language families than the spoken languages, because of language contact and creolization. |
There are two problems with this 'language bioprogram hypothesis,' as it is known in the creolization literature. |
On the whole, American forms of Spanish are more musical and suave than the Castilian of Madrid, but it is remarkable how little deformation, or creolization, of the language has occurred. |
If we take the idea that the world is in the process of creolization then we are not dealing with issues of hybridity but with issues of contact between culture. |
The violence of their efforts warns against a sense that cultural creolization involves merely the intertwining of different cultural strands. |