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Middle English: a Case of Hybridization

Middle English: a Case of Hybridization

[ 0 ] June 15, 2012 |

Generally speaking, creoles and hybrids took more from the dialects of their superstrata than from the standard languages. Hybridization took place in England, in the area called Danelaw (extended from London to Chester), between the10th and the 11th Century, when Danish was probably used for some time. This is testified by the fact that places […]

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Pidgin and Creole

Pidgin and Creole

[ 0 ] June 15, 2012 |

A precise boundary between the two terms, Pidgin and Creole, does not exist mostly because they both represent “corruptions” of higher languages and include a wide variety of phenomena. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests the definition of Pidgin English “as an English specialized jargon corrupted according to another language to permit intercommunication”. This is the […]

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