about rgc

The Research Group in Creolistics (RGC) promotes the study of language varieties that resulted from contact between other languages: pidgins, creoles, partially restructured vernaculars, and similar varieties.

The RGC helps scholars in Portugal doing research in this area of linguistics by facilitating access to literature in the field and providing contact with scholars in other countries.

The RGC invites scholars from other universities to come to Coimbra to give workshops and to discuss their research.

The RGC works with learned societies:
Associação: Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola
Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages
Society for Caribbean Linguistics
Comité International des Études Créoles

The RGC grew out of the graduate seminar in contact linguistics taught by Prof. John Holm, part of Coimbra University’s Master’s Program in Descriptive Linguistics, organized in 2002.

The RGC is now part of CELGA, the Centro de Estudos de Linguística Geral e Aplicada, on the seventh floor of the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, which will house the RGC library.