In:Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler
Edited by Cecelia Cutler, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer
[Creole Language Library 53] 2017
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Philipp Angermeyer
Cecelia Cutler
Zvjezdana Vrzić
Part 1.The sociohistorical matrix of language contact
Population factors, multilingualism and the emergence of grammar
Enoch O. Aboh
The African diaspora in Latin America: Linguistic contact and consequences
Gregory R. Guy
The sociohistorical matrix of creolization and the role children played in this process
Silvia Kouwenberg
Creole as necessity? Creole as choice? Evidence from Afrikaans historical sociolinguistics
Ana Deumert
Bahamian Creole English: Yesterday, today and tomorrow
Chanti Seymour
Linguistic commonality in English of the African diaspora: Evidence from lesser-known varieties of English
Walt Wolfram
Caroline Myrick
Historical separations: Race, class and language in Barbados
Renée Blake
Part 2.Sources of grammar and processes of language contact
Some observations on the sources of AAVE structure: Re-examining the creole connection
Donald Winford
Unity in diversity: The homogeneity of the substrate and the grammar of space in the African and Caribbean English-lexifier creoles
Kofi Yakpo
Krio as the Western Maroon Creole Language of Jamaica, and the /na/ isogloss
Norval Smith
Number marking in Jamaican Patwa
Peter L. Patrick
Variationist creolistics, with a phonological focus
John R. Rickford
Pidginisation versus second language acquisition: Insights from basilang and mesolang varieties of Zulu as a second language
Rajend Mesthrie
Crosslinguistic effects in adjectivization strategies in Suriname, Ghana and Togo
Margot van den Berg
Evershed Kwasi Amuzu
Komlan Essizewa
Elvis Yevudey
Kamaïloudini Tagba
Author index
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Language index
365
Subject index
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