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In:Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles
Edited by John H. McWhorter
[Creole Language Library 21] 2000
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 15 May 2000
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Table of contents

Prefacevii
Verb Movement in four Creole Languages: A Comparative Analysis1
Notes on Componential Diffusion in the Genesis of the Kabuverdianu Cluster35
“High” Kwéyòl: The Emergence of a Formal Creole Register in St Lucia63
From Latin to Early Romance: A Case of Partial Creolization?103
The Creole verb: A Comparative Study of Stativity and Time Reference133
Are Creole Languages “Perfect” Languages?163
The Origin of the Syntax and Semantics of Property Items in the Surinamese Plantation Creole201
Variable Concord in Portuguese: The Situation in Brazil and Portugal235
Nativization and the genesis of Hawaiian Creole257
The Status of Sango in Fact and Fiction. On the one-hundredth anniversary of its conception301
Optimality Theory, the Minimal-Word Constraint, and the Historical Sequencing of Substrate Influence in Pidgin/Creole Genesis335
The Story of kom in Nigerian Pidgin English353
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Tense and Aspect in Sranan and the Creole Prototype383
Chaos and Creoles. Towards a New Paradigm?443
Wh-words and Question Formation in Pidgin/Creole Languages459
Index499
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