This work has great potential to bring together both research traditions and researchers in various fields. It expands the directions of the research that is firmly established in the English-speaking world and thus constitutes a fresh nucleus for future debates on language contact and the processes and mechanisms that it involves.

The authors devote time to promoting the work of many Polish scholars who have worked on issues within contact linguistics. For the first time they give a Polish name to the field of study that they have promoted within Poland for so long.
This represents the culmination of their enduring and significant efforts to frame and systematize the theoretical constructs and frameworks of kreolingwistyka, the discipline that this pioneering work introduces to the Polish community.

The recipe for the language is interesting: Take one sea full of British sailormen, hardy, daring, very British and profane, and leave it in a cool place for two days; extract their speech; then bring to boil and extract what speech remains. Add a coconut shell each of Chinese, Malay, German and Kanaka and bring to boil a hundred or so times, then season with a little war or two; add a few drops of Mission sauce and sprinkle with blackbirder pepper and recruiter salt. Strain through Kanaka lips and serve with beer on boat days, or with undiluted Australian any other time..

—Frank Robertson (1971: 13–14)

It is exceedingly doubtful if a language will ever be spoken over a wide area without multiplying itself dialectically.

—Edward Sapir ([1921] 2004: 124)