Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Online-first articles

The following articles have been published online-first, and have not yet been published in an issue.

23 March 2026

Review of Syea (2017): French Creoles: A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar

Aymeric Daval-Markussen | 4 pp.

10 February 2026

Creole onomastics: Names and naming in and for creole languages

Philipp Krämer, Eeva M. Sippola and Rachel Selbach | 26 pp.

Terminologies in crisis: Challenges and insights from multipolar metalinguistics

Carsten Levisen | 22 pp.

2 February 2026

On naming and definiteness: New evidence from Martinique Creole

Anne Zribi-Hertz and Loïc Jean-Louis | 54 pp.

16 January 2026

Moving past the Afro-Hispanic past

John M. Lipski | 28 pp.

11 December 2025

Names for contact languages: An historical overview of the evolution of terms in the field of pidgin and creole languages

Peter Bakker | 32 pp.

8 December 2025

Small island, diverse languages: Teachers’ and students’ language attitudes in multilingual Dominica

Anika Gerfer, Lisa Jansen and Dagmar Deuber | 33 pp.

4 December 2025

Fuzzy boundaries between Creole and French in the Mauritian Linguistic Landscape

Elissa Pustka and Yannick Bosquet | 34 pp.

24 November 2025

Creole identity, transnational migration, and Language endangerment in a Philippine context

Member fee JPCL SPCL Society for Pidgin and Creole Linquistics and Eeva M. Sippola | 35 pp.

21 November 2025

Naming creole varieties on the Cape Verde Islands and in Upper Guinea from the perspective of language ideologies

Alla Klimenkowa | 31 pp.

25 September 2025

The digital diffusion of pidgin/creoles: Langwij, kolcha, media and Large Language Models

Christian Mair | 22 pp.

9 September 2025

Plural nouns in contact: Evidence from the Philippines

Mauro Fernández and Eeva M. Sippola | 34 pp.

29 July 2025

Asymmetrical and symmetrical serial verb constructions in Kununurra Kriol

Thomas Batchelor | 26 pp.

28 July 2025

The linguistic impact of the Russian-American Company, with a special focus on Fort Ross

Dieter Stern | 26 pp.

8 July 2025

A versatile placeholder in Hawai‘i Creole: The case of polyfunctional da kine

Tohru Seraku and Keolakawai K.G. Spencer | 40 pp.

2 June 2025

Eski fitir-la touzour insertin? Is the future still uncertain? The acceptability of Mauritian Creole’s elusive VA marker in future contexts

Hannah Davidson and Sandra Paoli | 31 pp.

26 May 2025

What do we talk about when we talk about Chavacano? Language names in the archaeology of knowledge

Jillian Loise Melchor | 29 pp.

Measuring the similarity between languages: The case of creoles and non-creoles

Lara Rüter and Ingo Plag | 36 pp.

24 February 2025

Predicting reading comprehension in Creole Papiamento and Dutch in a post-colonial context

Gil-Marie Mercelina, Eliane Segers, Ronald Severing and Ludo Verhoeven | 34 pp.

6 February 2025

“Mij dodte, mij loppe, in mijn lande” Extending the horizon on documented contact language use in the Virgin Islands with a quote in incipient Dutch Creole from 1681

Kristoffer Friis Bøegh, Mikael Parkvall and Peter Bakker | 29 pp.

28 January 2025

The copula sendá in the revitalization of Palenquero Creole: Fresh evidence

Mara Marsella | 25 pp.

21 November 2024

Is variation a sign of decreolization? Exploring decreolization through diachronic analysis of variation in ‘doz’ and singular pronouns in Guyanese Creolese

Emma Kainz | 30 pp.

18 November 2024

On the orthography of Philippine Creole Spanish in Zamboanga

Gefilloyd L. De Castro | 10 pp.

3 September 2024

The rhotics of the Salvador, Bahia variety of Brazilian Portuguese

Trey Jagiella and J. Clancy Clements | 32 pp.

Speaking with attitude: Language attitudes in comic literature in Macanese Creole

João Oliveira | 29 pp.

5 July 2024

Lingua francas as evidence of standard language ideology in historical perspective

Josh Brown | 29 pp.

28 June 2024

Selectional factors in pronominal system formation: Evidence from Fiji’s two pidgins

Brian Hayden | 37 pp.