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Development and Structures of Creole Languages
Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton
Editors
This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career. Each author included in the volume is a noted scholar who has distinguished him/herself in some area of linguistics and has professionally or personally interacted with Bickerton and been influenced by his work. While the papers make independent thematic contributions, they also discuss, augment, present alternatives to, or are inspired in some way by Bickerton's seminal ideas or penetrating analyses. The book is organized into 5 sections, each a reflection of a major research period in Bickerton's career: Section 1: Identifying Creoles; Section 2: Language Variation; Section 3: Creole Processes; Section 4: Creole Syntax and Semantics; Section 5: Serial Verbs.
[Creole Language Library, 9] 1991. x, 222 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 28 October 2011
Published online on 28 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. vii–viii
- Contents | pp. ix–x
- Introduction: Innovation and Excellence within a Scholary TraditionFrancis Byrne | p. 1
- 1. Identifying Creoles
- St Helena EnglishIan F. Hancock | p. 17
- American Indian English: A Phylogenetic DilemmaH. Guillermo Bartelt | p. 29
- 2. Language Variation
- Style, Status, Change: Three Sociolinguistic AxiomsDennis R. Preston | p. 43
- Using the Future o Explain the PastGillian Sankoff | p. 61
- Decreolization or Dialect Contact in Haiti?Albert Valdman | p. 75
- 3. Creole Processes
- From Botany to Creolistics: The Contribution of the Lexicon on the Flora to the Debate on Indian Ocean creole GenesisRobert Chaudenson | p. 91
- Ndjuka Organisation of Experience: African or Universal?George L. Huttar | p. 101
- A Reexamination of Bickerton’s Phylogenesis HypothesisMary C. Black and Glenn Gilbert | p. 111
- 4. Creole Syntax and Semantics
- Pidgins, Creoles, Typology, and MarkednessSalikoko S. Mufwene | p. 123
- The Binding Theory and Creolization: Evidence from 18th Century Negerhollands ReflexivesPieter Muysken and Hein van der Voort | p. 145
- On the Copula in Mauritian Creole, Past and PresentPhilip Baker and Anand Syea | p. 159
- 5. Serial Verbs
- Serialization in Creole Oral DiscourseGeneviève Escure | p. 179
- The Definition of Serial VerbsPieter A.M. Seuren | p. 193
- Approaches to ‘Missing” Internal (and External) Arguments in Serial Structure: Some Presumed DifficultiesFrancis Byrne | p. 207
Cited by (3)
Cited by three other publications
Samarin, William J.
1997. Review of Chambers (1995): Sociolinguistic theory: Linguistic variation and its social significance. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12:2 ► pp. 345 ff.
Nichols, Patricia C.
1992. Review of Singler (1990): Pidgin and Creole Tense-Mood-Aspect Systems. Diachronica 9:1 ► pp. 125 ff.
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