Editing Creole language (section)

===Additional resources===
{{Harvcoltxt|Ansaldo|Matthews|Lim|2007}} critically assesses the proposal that creole languages exist as a homogeneous structural type with shared and/ or peculiar origins.

{{Harvcoltxt|Arends|Muysken|Smith|1995}} groups creole genesis theories into four categories:

* Theories focusing on the [[Europe]]an input
* Theories focusing on the non-European input
* [[Gradualist]] and [[Developmental linguistics|developmental]] hypotheses
* [[Universalist]] approaches

The authors also confine [[Pidgins]] and [[mixed languages]] into separate chapters outside this scheme whether or not relexification come into the picture.