Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowlegments vii
4. Introdution ix
5. Some Development Interferences from the Historical Studies of Pidgins and Creoles 1
6. Eighteenth-Century Negerhollands reflexives Revisited 25
7. Early Creole Writing and its Effects on the Discovery of Creole Language Structure 43
8. The Negerhollands Word sender in Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts 63
9. Early Bajan 89
10. The Emergence of taki as a Complementizer in Sranan 113
11. Relative Clauses in Early Sranan 149
12. The Demographics of Creole Genesis in the Caribbean 203
13. Demographic Factors in the Formation of Sranan 233