Erupting Languages: the Spontaneous Development of New Languages: Pidgins, Creoles, Mixed Languages and Twins’ Languages

About

The course covers the genesis of new languages and new grammars. The student is given a general introduction to pidgins (spontaneous trade languages), creoles (newly emerged community languages, mixed languages and the languages created by some twin pairs. Students are also given an introduction to the theoretical approaches within the area of languages in contact and contact languages.

The purpose of the internationalisation electives is to provide students with the opportunity to use a foreign language in an academic setting, and to work with an academic theme within the humanities.
The purpose is also to teach the students to operate in a cross-disciplinary teaching context, thereby gaining a cross-disciplinary perspective on their own subject area.
The course contributes to the international dimension of the degree programme and improves the students’ understanding of the academic profile of their degree programme in relation to the humanities as a whole.

Course leader

Peter Bakker

Target group

To apply for the course you must either be enrolled in a bachelor's degree, have a bachelor's degree or have passed a qualifying entry examination.

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