Nigerian Pidgin in Lagos

Language Contact, Variation and Change in an African Urban Setting

• Author(s): Dagmar Deuber,
• Publisher: Battlebridge
• Pages: 274
• ISBN_10: 1903292107
  ISBN_13: 9781903292105
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Foreign Language Study / African Languages , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General ,

Description:... This sociolinguistic study of Nigerian Pidgin, an English-based contact language widely used in Nigeria alongside Standard English and nearly 500 indigenous languages, argues that though Nigerian Pidgin is lexically based on English, it is a language in its own right with a stable structure, important functions, and potential for further development.