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  1. Names for contact languages

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, December 2025, John Benjamins

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  2. Creoles, Typology, Language Contact and Linguistic Areas

    Article • May 2025, De Gruyter

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  3. Textbooks in historical linguistics

    Article • Diachronica, April 2025, John Benjamins

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  4. Empiricism against imperialism

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, August 2023, John Benjamins

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  5. Review of Operstein (2021): The Lingua Franca: Contact-Induced Language Change in the Mediterranean

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, May 2023, John Benjamins

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  6. The Beginning of Quantitative Sociolinguistics in the Nineteenth Century

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, December 2022, John Benjamins

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  7. The Linguistic Situation in the Parish of Aaby, Aarhus County

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, December 2022, John Benjamins

    Kristoffer Friis Bøegh, dr peter bakker

  8. Pieter Cornelis Muysken (1950–2021)

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, March 2022, John Benjamins

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  9. Review of Jennings & Pfänder (2018): Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language. Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, December 2021, John Benjamins

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  10. Joanna Nolan. The Elusive case of Lingua Franca. Fact and Fiction

    Article • Journal of Language Contact, December 2021, Brill

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  11. Joanna Nolan. The Elusive case of Lingua Franca. Fact and Fiction

    Article • Journal of Language Contact, December 2021, Brill

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  12. Kreolisch und Französisch. By Peter Stein

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, November 2019, John Benjamins

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  13. Language contact in the early colonial Pacific. Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English. By Emanuel J. Drechsel

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, November 2019, John Benjamins

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  14. Philip Baker (1940–2017)

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, October 2018, John Benjamins

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  15. Perry Gilmore, 2016. Kisisi (Our language). The story of Colin and Sadiki

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, December 2017, John Benjamins

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  16. Reviews

    Article • Romani Studies, December 2017, Liverpool University Press

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  17. Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches

    Article • May 2017, John Benjamins

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  18. You got Gungbe, but we got the numbers

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, October 2016, John Benjamins

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  19. Surviving the Middle Passage. The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, written by Muysken, Pieter C. Norval Smith, in collaboration with Robert D. Borges.

    Article • Journal of Language Contact, April 2016, Brill

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  20. Review of Sabino (2012): Language contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack his jacket

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, April 2016, John Benjamins

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  21. Creoles, creole studies and sign languages

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, October 2015, John Benjamins

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  22. Review of (2012): Chinuk Wawa / kakwa nsayka ulman-tilixam ɬaska munk-kəmtəks nsayka / As our elders teach us to speak it. The Chinuk Wawa dictionary project & Lang (2008): Making Wawa: The genesis of Chinook Jargon

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, October 2015, John Benjamins

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  23. Creole languages have no… — but they do have…

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, April 2015, John Benjamins

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  24. Creoles and typology

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, September 2014, John Benjamins

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  25. Three Dutch Creoles in Comparison

    Article • Journal of Germanic Linguistics, August 2014, Cambridge University Press

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  26. Creolistics: Back to square one?

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, February 2014, John Benjamins

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  27. Review of Bizri & Hagège (2010): Pidgin Madame. Une grammaire de la servitude

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, February 2013, John Benjamins

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  28. Review of Matras (2010): Romani in Britain. The afterlife of a language

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, February 2013, John Benjamins

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  29. A phylogenetic networks approach to the classification of English-based Atlantic creoles

    Article • English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English, July 2011, John Benjamins

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  30. Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creoles

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, February 2011, John Benjamins

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  31. Bibliography of Modern Romani Linguistics

    Article • December 2003, John Benjamins

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  32. Review of van Coetsem (2000): A General and Unified Theory of the Transmission Process in Language Contact

    Article • Diachronica, October 2002, John Benjamins

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  33. Review of Horvath & Wexler (1997): Relexification in creole and non-creole languages. With special attention to Haitian Creole, Modern Hebrew, Romani and Rumanian

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, December 2000, John Benjamins

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  34. The Typology and Dialectology of Romani

    Article • December 1997, John Benjamins

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  35. Review of Granberry (1993): A grammar and dictionary of the Timucua language

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, January 1995, John Benjamins

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  36. Review of Pütz & Dirven (1989): Wheels within wheels. Papers of the Duisburg Symposium on Pidgin and Creole Languages

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, January 1991, John Benjamins

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  37. A French-Icelandic Nautical Pidgin

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, January 1989, John Benjamins

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  38. Review of Boretzky, Enninger & Stolz (1985): Akten des 2. Essener Kolloquiums über “Kreolsprachen und Sprachkontakte” vom 29. und 30.11.1985 an der Universität Essen

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, January 1988, John Benjamins

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  39. A Basque Nautical Pidgin

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, January 1987, John Benjamins

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