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In:Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages
Edited by Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh and Edgar W. Schneider
[Creole Language Library 22] 2000
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 12 February 2001
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Table of contents

Introduction: “Degrees of restructuring” in creole languages?1
State of the art
Semi-creolization: Problems in the development of theory19
Theory
Theories of creolization and the degree and nature of restructuring41
Creolization is a social, not a structural, process65
Defining “creole” as a synchronic term85
Opposite processes in “creolization”125
Two types of restructuring in French creoles: A cognitive approach to the genesis of tens markers135
The fate of subject pronouns: Evidence from creole and non-creole languages163
Reassessing the role of demographics in language restructuring185
Case studies: English-based
“Intermediate” creoles and degrees of change in creole formation: The case of Bajan215
Differential creolization: Some evidence from Earlier African American Vernacular English in South Carolina247
Restructuring in vitro? Evidence from Early Krio275
Phonological restructuring in creole: The development of paragoge in Sranan309
The development of the life form lexicon in Tok Pisin337
Case studies: Romance-based
Créolisation du français et francisation du créole: Le cas de Saint-Barthélemy et de la Réunion361
Restructuration dans un créole “conservateur”: Le cas du créole louisianais383
The myth of decreolization: The anomalous case of Palenquero409
Bozal Spanish: Restructuring or creolization?437
Centre africain et périphérie portugaise dans le créole santiagais du Cap Vert?469
Subject Index483
Language Index489
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