Readers may find several classic and recent texts useful, including Robert A. Hall, Jr., Pidgin and Creole Languages (1966); Dell Hymes (ed.), Pidginization and Creolization of Languages (1971); Mervyn C. Alleyne, Comparative Afro-American (1980); Peter Mühlhäusler, Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (1986); John Holm, Pidgins and Creoles, vol. 2, Reference Survey (1989); Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken, and Norval Smith (eds.), Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction (1995); Arthur Spears and Donald Winford (eds.), Pidgins and Creoles: Structure and Status (1996); Sarah G. Thomason (ed.), Contact Languages: A Wider Perspective (1997); Robert Chaudenson, Creolization of Language and Culture, rev. by Salikoko S. Mufwene (2001; originally published in French, 1992); Salikoko S. Mufwene, The Ecology of Language Evolution (2001); and Jeff Siegel, The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages (2008).