Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Abbreviations; 3. Maps; 4. Introduction; 5. A sociohistorical account of Pidgins on the Gold Coast; 6. Excursus: The settlement of the Sierra Leone peninsula, 1787-1850; 7. The origin and development of West African Pidgin Englishes: linguistic data; 8. The sociolinguistics of Ghanaian Pidgin English; 9. A synchronic-structural description of Ghanaian Pidgin English; 10. Conclusion; 11. Appendices; 12. References; 13. Index; 14. The CD: system requirements