Interrogative pronouns in Louisiana Creole and the Multiple Genesis Hypothesis

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. SECTION ONE: HISTORY
5. Louisiana Creole at the periphery 11
6. Using and interpreting historical texts to analyze the formation and development of creole languages 29
7. Lexical aspects of French and Creole in Saint-Domingue at the end of the eighteenth century 47
8. The lexicalization — grammaticalization continuum 77
9. Creole transplantation 103
10. SECTION TWO: SOCIETY
11. Creoles, capitalism, and colonialism 137
12. A curiosity of Mauritian Creole 153
13. Theoretical and practical conditions for the emergence of a koine among French-lexified creole languages 163
14. French in Haiti 179
15. SECTION THREE: VARIATION
16. Albert Valdman on the development of creoles 203
17. Diatopic variation in Haitian Creole 225
18. Interrogative pronouns in Louisiana Creole and the Multiple Genesis Hypothesis 235
19. Gender in French creoles 251
20. Tense, mood, and aspect and the Deixis Ordering Principle 273
21. Index 297