2015/01/01 by Joanna Nolan, Nolan, Joanna
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Historical Linguistics and Language Studies #Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies #African history and culture studies
paper · doi:10.25501/soas.00040403
The existence and documentation of Lingua Franca, allegedly the earliest European pidgin, is subject to much debate. Linguists from Schuchardt (1909) onwards offer contradictory theories regarding its place and date of origin and its evolution, with later research (Minervini 1996, Selbach 2008) questioning whether the evidence suggests