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CREOLES (STRUCTURAL FEATURES (Pidgin languages do not use affixes to…
CREOLES
WHAT A CREOLE IS
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Basically, learnt by kids as their first language, and used in wide range of domains.
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Example: Tok Pisin counted as creole because it has been learn as the first language by an enormous number of speakers and has developed accordingly to meet their linguistic needs.
ATTITUDES
Though, Tok Pisin considered as had its own status and prestige for people of Papua New Guinea as they recognised its usefulness as a means for getting jobs as well as communication.
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FUNCTIONS
A pidgin can become a very useful lingua franca that it may be expanded and used by people who share a tribal language.
Once a creole has developed it can be used for all the functions of any aspect such as languages, politics, education and etc.
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STRUCTURAL FEATURES
Pidgin languages do not use affixes to signal meanings such as tense of a verb or the number of a noun. Though, creole languages do develop ways of systematically signalling meanings such as verb tenses and these may develop into inflections or affixes over time.
In its pidgin state, reference to the future events, Tok Pisin used the adverbs baimbai which derived from the English phrase by and by.
As the creole develops, paraphrases become more compact and concise, often at the cost of semantic 'transparency'.
Example: Nicaraguan Sign Language, a creole which is developing among schoolchildren in Nicaragua. (page 93)
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