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- Title
Why pidgin and creole linguistics needs the statistician: Vocabulary size in a Tok Pisin corpus.
- Authors
Robinson, Stuart
- Abstract
The article focuses on the issue over the nature of the complexity in pidgin and creole languages. Arguments concerning the issue have largely been conducted on structural-functional grounds and have not been informed by developments in quantitative corpus analysis. Even those who endorse measures of complexity usually discuss them in the abstract without applying them systematically to corpora. The author notes that this trend is not entirely surprising, given the paucity of available materials for many pidgin and creole languages. Also mentioned in this article are quotes from literature indicating that pidgin and creole languages are associated with a relatively small vocabulary.
- Subjects
PIDGIN languages; CREOLE dialects; TOK Pisin language; LINGUA francas; LANGUAGE &; languages; STRUCTURALISM; LEXICOLOGY; MIXED languages; LITERATURE
- Publication
Journal of Pidgin & Creole Languages, 2008, Vol 23, Issue 1, p141
- ISSN
0920-9034
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/jpcl.23.1.10rob