| Lemma | pidgin-creole study |
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| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | DeCamp (1977) |
| Titolo | The Development of Pidgin and Creole Studies |
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| Citazioni | Until the 1950s, however, there was no recognized field of pidgin-creole studies. Only a few of the individual languages had been reliably and objectively studied, and most educated people were totally unaware of them or did not consider them to be real languages. The establishment of pidgin-creole studies as a general academic field took place in the 1950s, when Robert B. Le Page organized a linguistic survey of the West Indies and established at the University College of the West Indies a research center for creolists. |