[…] pidginization is second-language learning with restricted input […].
- Bickerton (1977), a pag.49

Several theories about pidginization have involved the assumption that speakers of the superstrate language deliberately simplified it in order to accommodate the “ignorant natives”.
- Bickerton (1977), a pag.49

[…] pidginization is a process that begins by the speaker using his native tongue and relexifying first only a few key words […] that, in the earliest stages, even the few superstrate words will be thoroughly rephonologized to accord with substrate sound system and phonotactics; that, subsequently, more superstrate lexicon will be acquired, but may be still rephonoligized to varying degrees and will be, for the most part, slotted into syntactic surface structures drawn from the substrate; that, even when relexification is complete down to grammatical items, substrate syntax will be partially retained, and will alternate, apparently unpredictably with structures imported from the superstrate.
- Bickerton (1977), a pag.54