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Magnus Huber, Ghanaian Pidgin English in its West African context: A sociohistorical and structural analysis. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999. Pp. xviii, 318. Hb.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2003

Andrei A. Avram
Andrei A. Avram
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Department of English, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, str. Pitar Moş 7–11, sector 1, ala@pcnet.pcnet.ro
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This book, it must be said from the outset, is a remarkable addition to the literature on pidgin and creole languages. It is particularly important because it investigates the diachrony and synchrony of an English-lexicon contact language on which very little has been previously published, and whose very existence has been called into question by some.

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Language in Society , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 285 - 289
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