Due to the increasing interest in pidgin and creole
languages in the last century, many studies have been conducted on the topic. The
authors claim that the old
assumption of creoles constituting a particular type of languages which arise
from unusual sociohistorical circumstances is wrong. Instead, they argue that creole languages emerge
in the course of language contact which does not necessarily mean a
simplification of the grammar. Rather, it becomes evident that new languages in
their emergence are indistinguishable from older ones and therefore are no less
complex than their lexifiers. Thus, despite common assumptions, the evidence
exists that creoles are the product of the “deconstructing” grammar followed by
its reconstruction, the signs of which are still detected.
