Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Pidgins and Creoles
Term
2025A
Subject area
LING
Section number only
401
Section ID
LING3690401
Course number integer
3690
Meeting times
TR 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Marlyse Baptista
Description
This course provides a thorough introduction to the study of Pidgin and Creole languages, including an overview of their history and development. It focuses on the socio-historical context of their genesis, their morpho-syntactic properties, diachronic development, cognitive processes at work in creole formation and the resulting linguistic make-up. The status of creoles and their use in education are also examined. In addition to an individual mid-term and final paper, students will conduct a collaborative project consisting of comparing linguistic features in a set of creoles to other languages in their environment. The class will use data from the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Structures (2013) and from Pidgin, Creoles and Mixed Languages (Velupillai, 2015) in addition to multiple other sources. Diachronic data for some of the creoles will also be examined.
Course number only
3690
Cross listings
LING5690401
Use local description
No