Books by John A. Holm

Pidgins and Creoles is a major linguistic survey which lays new foundations for research in the field. This volume presents an overview of the socio-historical development of each of some one hundred pidgins, creoles and semi-creoles, providing texts and highlinghting the salient linguistics features of each.

Holm's major survey of pidgins and creales is written for both students and general readers with a basic knowledge of linguistics. The core of this first volume is a comparative study of creoles based on European languages in Africa and the Caribbean in terms of their lexical semantics, phonology and syntax.