Re: Are pidgins natlangs? (was Re: Telona Grammar, part 2)

David Peterson wrote:

> Another way to define a creole rather than
> saying that someone speaks them natively (one can speak
> a pidgin natively, after all) is to say that a creole is
> the stage where a pidgin's grammar has become more or less
> standardized, so that all or most of the speakers of the
> creole either agree on or exhibit a certain set standard
> of rules governing word order, pronouns, verb aspects/tenses,
> etc.  (This is my own definition which I came up with when
> I did my final write-up on the pidgin experiment I ran last
> semester.)
That's also the definition the creolists at my uni would go
by (and I). Think of Tok Pisin for instance.

||| daniel

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