Creoles and Typology

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:1 (2011)

Editors

Parth Bhatt | University of Toronto

Tonjes Veenstra | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

[Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 26:1] 2011. v, 233 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 17 February 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.26.1

Table of Contents

Introduction Parth Bhatt and Tonjes Veenstra	1–3
Articles
Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creoles Peter Bakker, Aymeric Daval-Markussen, Mikael Parkvall and Ingo Plag	5–42
Pidgin-creoles as a scattered sprachbund: Comparing Kriyol and Nubi Alain Kihm	43–88
Creolization and admixture: Typology, feature pools, and second language acquisition Ingo Plag	89–110
The Gulf of Guinea Creoles: Genetic and typological relations Tjerk Hagemeijer	111–154
Typology of creole phonology: Phoneme inventories and syllable templates Thomas B. Klein	155–193
The typology of Caribbean Creole reduplication Silvia Kouwenberg and Darlene LaCharité	194–218
Guest Column
Linguistics in the Caribbean: Between theory and practice Silvia Kouwenberg	219–233

“The volume shows that creoles may be both more complex overall and less exceptional structurally than commonly thought.”

Natalie Operstein & Allyson Walker, California State University, Fullerton, in the Journal of Historical Linguistics Vol. 2:2 (2012)

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Cited by one other publication

Daval-Markussen, Aymeric

2013. First steps towards a typological profile of creoles. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 45:2 ► pp. 274 ff.

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Subjects and metadata

Linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Historical linguistics

Contact Linguistics

Creole studies