... of communication that results from the interactions of all these people who originate from different language backgrounds is refereed to by Pinker as being "a makeshift jargon". Its lexicon is the result of the mixing and matching of words and phrases from the many source languages. This "jargon" is not a language in the traditional sense. Evidence collected by Derek Bickerton shows that a pidgin, during its first generation does not have many of the elements common to most languages. Examples of such are, in the words of Pinker, "no consistent word order, no prefixes or suffixes, no tense or other temporal and logical markers, no structure more complex than a simple clause, and no consistent way to indicate who did what to whom." That is to say that many of the grammatical "resources" that we rely upon to make ourselves understood are not present. In addition, the actually meaning ...

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