The lexicon is seen as intimately connected with all aspects of language. We can no longer hide behind easy definitions such as ‘pidgins and creoles have the lexicon of one language and the grammar of another’ and investigate the history of the lexicon one month and the history of the grammar another (usually to the detriment of the grammar), but are required to focus on the processes that make these particular lexical items the realizations of these semantic-syntactic relationships in this contact situation at this particular time.
- Traugott (1977), a pag.90