This stimulating, challenging critique of traditional
creolistics provides fresh insight into the complexity of the colonial world and the oft-forgotten role of subaltern societies.
Linguists in different specialties discuss complexity in the three major contact-related fields of
creolistics, indigenization, and nativization.
The exact linguistic characteristics of this supposedly creolized or 'pidginized' speech is to date uncertain, due to the fact that Classic literary writers were generally untrained in linguistic analysis, and documentation from the time are scarce if not strictly nonexistent; so, most of such imitations are deemed by linguists dealing with Afro-Hispanic
Creolistics to be inaccurate and untrustworthy (see, e.g., Lipski 2005a, b.).
The terms "Creole" and "creole language" refer to these languages, and the Caribbean area is indeed the paradise of
creolistics: nowhere else in the world are such a large number of creole languages found, and they are spoken by almost everyone.
Undoubtedly,
creolistics has an important bearing on the problem of Israeli.
Apart from the omissions noted above, many important studies have been overlooked, such as those on the early forms of broken English in the area, on
creolistics, on sociolinguistics as applied to non-Western societies, and on attitudes and linguistic nationalism/identity research.