[…] two or more languages that functioned as input to the pidginization process were equal partners linguistically (but not socially), or would go so far as to suggest that the superstrate language, being socially at a considerable distance, did not function as real input to the pidginization process, only some hypothesis to its nature. This latter proposal is an appealing one for at last some situations in which pidgins arise […].
- Traugott (1977), a pag.75