Lingua Franca – a not so simple pidgin

Abstract

The existence and documentation of Lingua Franca, allegedly the earliest European pidgin, is subject to much debate. Linguists from Schuchardt (1909) onwards offer contradictory theories regarding its place and date of origin and its evolution, with later research (Minervini 1996, Selbach 2008) questioning whether the evidence suggests

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