Comparative Creole Syntax is a detailed reference of grammar that uses the same analytical structure to cover a large number of Creole languages. This book contains comparative grammars of 18 Creole languages of the Americas, Africa, Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific, written by some of the field's leading scholars. There are separate chapters for each language. Each chapter includes a sociohistorical introduction as well as a detailed grammar that treats about 100 structural features. The descriptive framework is common to all chapters, with corresponding section numbers to allow easy cross-reference. This makes this book the ideal complement to all existing general works on Pidgins and Creoles and an essential reference work for all specialists and students concerned with these languages. The book as a whole provides the broadest structural comparison between Creole languages yet undertaken.

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John A. Holm is best known for his two-volume Pidgins and Creoles, first published by Cambridge University Press in 1988-89. He has written and edited several other books and many articles on contact languages over the past 25 years. He lives in Coimbra, Portugal, and is the chair of English linguistics, University of Coimbra. Peter L. Patrick is professor of sociolinguistics and creole studies at the University of Essex, Colchester, England. He has also published extensively on Pidgin and Creole languages, as well as on sociolinguistic topics, over the past decade. He is the author of Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect.

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