In time, most pidgin languages disappear, as the pidgin-speaking community develops, and one of its established languages becomes widely known and takes over the role of the pidgin as the lingua franca, or language of choice of those who do not share a native language." (Grover Hudson, Essential Introductory Linguistics. "At first a pidgin language has no native speakers and is used just for doing business with others with whom one shares the pidgin language and no other.The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM which contains illustrative material such as spoken GhaPE and photographs. This monograph further includes an overview of the history of Afro-European contact languages in Lower Guinea with special emphasis on the Gold Coast an outline of the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a description of how and when the transplantation of Sierra Leonean Krio to other West African countries took place an analysis of the linguistic evidence for the origin, development, and spread of restructured Englishes on the Lower Guinea Coast an account of the different varieties of GhaPE and their sociolinguistic status in the contemporary linguistic ecology of Ghana as well as a comprehensive structural description of the “uneducated” variety of GhaPE.
Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other West African Pidgins, in particular the development of, and interrelations between, the different varieties of restructured English in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Cameroon. This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPE’s structure and sociolinguistics.
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