Part 1.Descriptive and historical perspectives

Chapter 1.Cognates of French articles in contemporary Reunion Creole18

Ulrike Albers

Chapter 2.Evidence of topic-prominence in Mauritian Creole: A typological shift from French to Creole49

Diana Guillemin

Chapter 3.Mauritian root modals are raising verbs96

Emilia Melara

Chapter 4.Gaps, resumptive pronouns and the complementizer ki
in Mauritian Creole relative clauses119

Muhsina Alleesaib

Chapter 5.Indo-Aryan influence in Mauritian Creole135

Anand Syea

Part 2.Sociolinguistic perspectives

Chapter 6.Attitudes of Mauritian school teachers towards Kreol
in education186

Anu Bissoonauth

Henri Jeanjean

Michael Matthias

Chapter 7.Towards the construction of technical vocabulary
in Kreol Morisien: An insight into mathematics and astronomy207

Shameem Oozeerally

Chapter 8.Language contact in writing: Exploring the linguistic landscape of Mauritius229

Hannah Davidson

Chapter 9.Overview of the economic, anthropological, sociocultural
and sociolinguistic situation in Reunion260

Mylène Lebon-Eyquem

Chapter 10.(Re)defining the classification of Mauritian French varieties through a phonemic/phonetic approach279

Guilhem Florigny

Rachel Sapermal

Index