“Lexical items in pidgin languages tend to cover a wider semantic domain than in the base language.”

“While not quite docents in a museum, they nonetheless will provide you with an overview that is several steps above pidgin history.”

“He could speak a smattering of Maori, or pidgin Maori, where the language is broken down and simplified, so he was given the job of interpreter.”

“Pidginization can entail loss of all bound morphology, many free grammatical morphemes, and even a large part of the vocabulary.”

“There are French pidgins and Creoles in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Indian and Pacific oceans.”

“Other investigators argue that only in cases where more than two languages are in contact do true pidgins spring up.”

“Other elements in such a range of choices are the pidgins and Creoles of English in West Africa and of Afrikaans in South Africa and Namibia.”