TY - BOOK AU - McWhorter,John TI - Language change and language contact in pidgins and creoles SN - 9027252432 PY - 2000/// CY - Amsterdam PB - John Benjamins Publishing KW - Pidgin languages KW - Congresses KW - Languages in contact KW - Linguistic change N1 - Fifteen papers selected from those presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held Jan. 1996 in San Diego, Jan. 1997 in Chicago, and June 1997 in London; Includes bibliographical references and index ER -