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Ansaldo, Matthews & Lim (2007) critically assesses the proposal that creole languages exist as a homogeneous structural type with shared and/ or peculiar origins.

Arends, Muysken & Smith (1995) groups creole genesis theories into four categories:

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