Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Part A. Introduction
4. Preface 3
5. Charlene Junko Sato (1951–1996) 11
6. Writings in Hawai’ian English 17
7. YMCA 19
8. Part B. Pidgin-Creole Genesis and Development
9. Pidgins and Language Mixture 31
10. The TMA System of Hawaiian Creole and Diffusion 45
11. Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific 71
12. Copula Patterns in Atlantic and Non-Atlantic Creoles 97
13. Skeletons in the Closet 121
14. Variation in the Jamaican Creole Copula and its Relation to the Genesis of AAVE 143
15. Accountability in Descriptions of Creoles 157
16. On the Possibility of Afrogenesis in the Case of French Creoles 187
17. Chinese-Cuban Pidgin Spanish 215
18. Monogenesis Revisited 235
19. Part C. Attitudes and Education in Creole Communities
20. Changing Attitudes towards Australian Creoles and Aboriginal English 265
21. Reactions to Bu 279
22. Changing Attitudes to Hawai’i Creole English 287
23. Mutual Intelligibility? 303
24. Beyond Grammar 323
25. Part D. Creole Discourse and Literature
26. On the Marking of Temporal Sequencing in Vernacular Liberian English 337
27. Temporal Frames in Spoken Papiamentu Discourse 353
28. Exploration of the Trinary Components in Creole Discourse 373
29. Comprehension and Resonance 391
30. Name Index 407
31. Language Index 411
32. Subject Index 415