Linguistics

Marka:
Welcome to the forum.
What is the subject of your class? What has your professor said about "transfer processes"? Does he mean culture transfer?
A Pidgin is a simplified language, not a native language, that developed as a pragmatic way for people of different tongues to be able to communicate.
Usually the purpose was trade or business. Pidgins are language mixes, but can

Hello AlpheccaStars,

Thank you for the quick response.

Actually, this is not a class now. I wrote my thesis on frist language interference and emphasized the importance of problem prediction during teaching. I need to do my defence from a pedagogical point of view, but the professor implied I might face a question like this.

I belive the answer to be more complic

Has Cholmsky written anything on the subject? He did a lot of work on theoretical linguistics, and how underlying structures are common to all languages. The grammars of the different pidgins would indeed be interesting to explore, since they are "manufactured" languages, without benefit of a social history and evolutionary development. So the "transfer" might be from a simplified form of the bas