| Lemma | linguistic universal |
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| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Meijer-Muysken (1977) |
| Titolo | On the Beginnings of Pidgin and Creole Studies: Schuchardt and Hesseling |
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| Citazioni | Research on pidgin and creole languages has centered around three types of linguistic universals involved in the formation of creoles: (1) universals of simplification; (2) universals of elaboration or grammar formation; (3) universal characteristics of the interaction between the substratum languages and the model language. |