‘In sociolinguistic terms, Tok Pisin is an expanded pidgin currently undergoing creolization.’
‘Distinctive marking of structures such as relative clauses comes later in the stabilization or expansion phase of the pidgin life cycle, or arises in the process of creolization.’
‘The violence of their efforts warns against a sense that cultural creolization involves merely the intertwining of different cultural strands.’
‘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.’
‘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.’
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