none 10.1075/z.211.03bor John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 90764208 2357396 202507031844000018 10.1075 2025-07-03T16:43:39Z 2017-06-12T09:34:13Z 1 Peter Bakker Aarhus University https://ror.org/01aj84f44 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2072-0430 Finn Borchsenius Aarhus University https://ror.org/01aj84f44 Carsten Levisen Roskilde University https://ror.org/014axpa37 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7497-2406 Eeva M. Sippola University of Bremen https://ror.org/04ers2y35 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6414-8723 This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and insights into the relationships between creoles and non-creoles, creoles and other contact varieties, and between creoles and lexifier languages. With evidence from creole languages in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific, the book provides new perspectives on creole typology, cross-creole comparisons, and creole semantics. The book offers an introduction for newcomers to the fields of creole studies and phylogenetic analysis. Using these methods to analyse a variety of linguistic features, both structural and semantic, the book then turns to explore old and new questions and problems in creole studies. Original case studies explore the differences and similarities between creoles, and propose solutions to the problems of how to classify creoles and how they formed and developed. The book provides a fascinating glimpse into the unity and heterogeneity of creoles and the areal influences on their development. It also provides metalinguistic discussions of the “creole” concept from different perspectives. Finally, the book reflects critically on the findings and methods, and sets new agendas for future studies. Creole Studies has been written for a broad readership of scholars and students in the fields of contact linguistics, biolinguistics, sociolinguistics, language typology, and semantics. 5 31 2017 6 12 2017 9789027212498 9789027265739 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/z.211 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027265739 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027265739.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/z.211/html Finn Borchsenius Aarhus University https://ror.org/01aj84f44 Aymeric Daval-Markussen Aarhus University https://ror.org/01aj84f44 Peter Bakker Aarhus University https://ror.org/01aj84f44 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2072-0430 Abstract The main goal of this chapter is to introduce the reader to the parallels and commonalities that exist between the fields of biology and linguistics. Researchers from both fields faced similar problems when seeking to account for the descent and diversification of related entities (species, languages). Therefore, they often sought mutual inspiration and opted for similar solutions. This has resulted in a convergence of models and methods in both fields. This chapter is divided into two parts. Firstly, we review some of the methodological and conceptual developments that have occurred in biology since the emergence of the field of evolutionary biology. There will be an emphasis on the last decade, where a variety of computer-based analyses have been developed. 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