In:Structure and Variation in Language Contact
Edited by Ana Deumert and Stephanie Durrleman
[Creole Language Library 29] 2006
► pp. vii–viii
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Published online: 30 November 2006
https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.29.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.29.toc
Table of contents
Introduction
Part I: Structure
The phonetics of tone in Saramaccan
Tracing the origin of modality in the creoles of Suriname
Modelling Creole Genesis: Headedness in morphology
The restructuring of tense/aspect systems in creole formation
Syntactic properties of negation in Chinook Jargon, with a comparison of two source languages
Sri Lankan Malay morphosyntax: Lankan or Malay?
Sri Lanka Malay: Creole or convert?
The advantages of a blockage-based etymological dictionary for proven or putative relexified languages: (Extrapolating from the Yiddish experience)
Part II: Variation
A fresh look at habitual be in AAVE
Oral narrative and tense in urban Bahamian Creole English
Aspects of variation in educated Nigerian Pidgin: Verbal structures
A linguistic time-capsule: Plural /s/ reduction in Afro-Portuguese and Afro-Hispanic historical texts
The progressive in the spoken Papiamentu of Aruba
Was Haitian ever more like French?
The late transfer of serial verb constructions as stylistic variants in Saramaccan creole
Index
