Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Phonolgy
6. Latent Intervocalic Liquids in Aluku 25
7. On Onsets 37
8. 2. Morphology and Syntax
9. A Bantu Model for the Seychellois pour dire Complementizer 49
10. Polysemic Functionality of Prepositions in Pidgin and Creoles 57
11. Is Haitian Creole a Pro-Drop Language? 71
12. Null Subject in Mauritian Creole and the Pro-Drop Parameter 91
13. The Mauritian Creole lekor Reflective 105
14. Cliticization of pronouns in Berbice Dutch and Eastern Ijo 119
15. Are There Possessive Pronouns in Atlantic Creoles? 133
16. Subject Pronouns and Person/ Number in Palenquero 145
17. Are Ndjuká Comparative Markers Verbs? 165
18. Why Serial Verb Constructions? Neither Bioprogram nor Substrate! 175
19. Directional Serial Verb Constructions in Caribbean English Creoles 183
20. A Few Observations on the Creole Aspectual Marker ta and Some Implications for Finiteness 207
21. Origin and Development of ta in Afro-Hispanic Creoles 217
22. Creole Aspect and Morphological Typology 233
23. Subjunctive Mood in Papiamentu 243
24. The Decline of Predicate Marking in Tok Pisin 251
25. Stem and So-Called Anterior Verb Forms in Haitian Creole 261
26. 3. Social Concerns
27. The Parallel Continuum Model for Suriname 279
28. Haitian Creole as the Official Language in Education and in the Media 291
29. Pidgins and Creoles in Education in Australia and the Southwest Pacific 299
30. Is Tok a Threat to Sare? 309
31. 4. Pidgins & Pidginization
32. A Contribution by an Old Creole to the Origins of Pidgin Portuguese 321
33. The Transitivizer and Pidgin Chronology 333
34. Tok Pisin I Kamap Pisin Gen? Is Tok Pisin Repidginizing? 341
35. Documenting the Papian-Based Pidgins of Insular New Guinea 355
36. 5. Creoles and Creolization
37. Towards a Gradualist Model of Creolization 371
38. The Genesis of Portuguese Creole in Africa 381
39. The Transmission of Creole Languages 391
40. African vs Austronesian Substrate Influence on the Spanish-Based Creoles 399
41. Antillean Creole on St Barthélemy 409
42. Hesseling and Van Ginneken on Language Contact, Variation, and Creolization 419
43. 6. Other Contact-induced Phenomena
44. Foreign Workers’ German 431
45. Shaba Swahili and the Processes of Linguistic Contact 441
46. Learning Pidgin English Trough Chinese Characters 459