**** Pidgins -- issues in defining

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Holm's definition explicitly raises the following issues:

• - How are they acquired? ......................... <[LINK]>
• - Are pidgins "reduced?" If so, in what way?
• - functionally? <[LINK]>
• - formally? <[LINK]>
• - substantively? {<[LINK]> are the contents reduced?}
• - What are the effects of power relations on languages in

contact? <[LINK]>

-- What role does historical circumstance play in language and

cultural contact situations? {<[LINK]>}

These questions cannot be disaggregated--assumptions in one area have repercussions throughout, as do changes in any area. Therrefore, an integrated approach will have to be developed.

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