This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and ins

Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major

A compelling argument for why creoles are their own unique entity, which have developed independently of other processes of language development and change.

Starting in 1498, contact between Ibero-Romance and Asian languages has taken place along a vast stretch of the coastlines of continental and insular Asia, prod