In this course, we would be exploring the foundations of contact languages i.e. Pidgins and Creoles in colonial settings and of their subsequent development into varieties of their own.
In doing so, the often complex socio-historic contexts and the specific linguistic settings, in which input varieties and the indigenous languages have undergone contact-induced change will be scrutinized.
For this purpose, the discussion in class will gradually shift its theoretical focus from general contact language phenomena to a number of exemplary and geographically varied case studies.
Note: A course reader will be available for you following the first session. |
