none 10.1075/cll.46.10mat John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 67856422 1419733 1419693 202507022024000057 10.1075 2025-07-02T14:23:50Z 2014-03-23T18:21:38Z 5 0920-9026 10.1075/cll https://benjamins.com/ catalog/cll Hugo C. Cardoso Universidade de Coimbra https://ror.org/04z8k9a98 Alan N. Baxter Universidade Federal da Bahia https://ror.org/03k3p7647 Mário Pinharanda-Nunes Universidade de Macau https://ror.org/01r4q9n85 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9705-558X Comparative Perspectives Starting in 1498, contact between Ibero-Romance and Asian languages has taken place along a vast stretch of the coastlines of continental and insular Asia, producing a string of contact varieties which are among the least visible in the field of Creole Studies. This volume, the first one dedicated to the Portuguese- and Spanish-lexified creoles of Asia, brings together comparative studies on various issues across the Ibero-Asian creoles and beyond, by specialists in these languages. This type of cross-linguistic analysis allows progress on many fronts, including the reconstruction of past stages of the languages, the explanation of observed similarities and differences, the identification and consolidation of typological/taxonomic clusters, or the assessment of the linguistic effects of different contact equations. The volume provides a timely window onto aspects of current research on the Ibero-Asian creoles, including unsettled debates and ways in which their study can contribute to advance several areas of linguistic enquiry. 46 11 15 2012 10 22 2012 9789027252692 9789027273208 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/cll.46 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027273208 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027273208.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/cll.46/html Stephen Matthews https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7683-8051 Michelle Li https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-1306 While the role of Chinese Pidgin English (CPE) in the Canton trade is relatively well-understood, the role of pidgin Portuguese has remained less clear. We review the evidence for the use of pidgin Portuguese and for its influence on the development of CPE. There is evidence of gradual replacement of certain Portuguese lexical items by English ones. In addition, we propose that two puzzling grammatical properties of CPE may be explained in terms of pidgin Portuguese influence: the use of have as locative copula, and the use of for as complementizer. Taken together, the lexical replacement and grammatical influence provide evidence for the role of pidgin Portuguese in the development of CPE. 11 15 2012 10 22 2012 263 288 10.1075/cll.46.10mat https://benjamins.com/catalog/cll.46.10mat https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/cll.46.10mat/html