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Tracking the homing pidgin: a millennium report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Loreto Todd
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Abstract

A survey of the past, present and future of pidgin and creole Englishes, how they have been studied, and how attitudes towards them have changed

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English Today , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 33 - 41
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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