“In sociolinguistic terms, Tok Pisin is an expanded pidgin currently undergoing creolization.”
“There are two problems with this 'language bioprogram hypothesis,' as it is known in the creolization literature.”
“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.”
creole
(linguistics) A lect formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.
“Despite the pervasive nature of creolisation on Barbados, it is a mistake to conclude that West African cultural patterns were stripped from the black population.”
“The creolisation of Yiddish with Scots was therefore a phenomenon of the middle part of this period.”
“Whereas the effects of hybridisation could be forecast, creolisation is unpredictable.”