Review: Pidgins and creoles beyond Africa-Europe encounters. Buchstaller, I., Holmberg, A., Almoaily, M. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2014

Research on contact languages and language contact has been on the rise since the publication of Thomason and Kaufman (1988) and growing interest in (linguistic) hybridity. Despite definitive advances, research has nevertheless proceeded on a narrow empirical base focusing on European-influenced contexts in the Atlantic region due to researchers’ restricted linguistic competences and limited research agendas, and traditions that privilege structural linguistic issues of a language from a diachronic perspective.