Download or read book Pidgins and Creoles: Current Trends and Prospects written by David De Camp and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of work on pidgins and creoles that includes discussions of the English-derived creole of San Andres Island and the French-derived creole of Cayenne, the theoretical contributions of creolistics to general linguistic theory, decreolization, generative phonological treatment of a hypothesized English-derived proto-creole, and the little-known Shelta language.