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Up until now I have discussed pidgins as though they formed an identifiable group with characteristics in common, but I have not shown why this should be so. This chapter will look at some of the features which typify pidgins, leading to remarkable similarities among pidgins widely separated in time and space.
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© 1997 Mark Sebba
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Sebba, M. (1997). The Character of Pidgins. In: Contact Languages. Modern Linguistics Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25587-0_2
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