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Review title: Source Material needs edits and supplements
Product review: I bought this book for an undergraduate Pidgins and Creoles class I needed to take. It ended up being as challenging as the graduate courses I had been taking.Even though this book has gone through a few editions and revisions, there are still edits that need to be made. There are numerous problem sets where the data is not correct, or is not complete enough to answer the questions asked in the book.Sebba vaguely defines terms once and then uses different non-defined terms for the rest of the book, leading readers to guessing whether or not the two terms are actually referring to the same thing. It doesn't help that the definitions he gives for some of his terms are not the definitions the rest of the linguistic world uses for those same terms.In short, don't buy this book unless you are absolutely required to. And read everything else you can find on pidgins and creoles so that you can halfway understand the points that Sebba is trying to convey.
