• DEFINITIONS

What is Pidginization? Creolization? What are the related process? What is a Pidgin? A Creole? What do the forces that make pidgin and creole language systems act upon? What do the results look like?
• HISTORY

What effect has the historical path of pidgin and creole studies had on its development? What can historians learn from linguists, and vice versa?
• CURRENT PERSPECTIVES

What are the different approaches to studying Pidgin and Creole languages? Who employs them and why?
• POWER

What are the forces that shape pidgin and creole languages? Do these same forces affect those who study them?
• CONCLUSIONS

How can one make sense of conflicting viewpoints in creole studies? What value are the findings of the discipline to others?

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