Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Structure
5. The phonetics of tone in Saramaccan 9
6. Tracing the origin of modality in the creoles of Suriname 29
7. Modelling Creole Genesis 61
8. The restructuring of tense/aspect systems in creole formation 85
9. Syntactic properties of negation in Chinook Jargon, with a comparison of two source languages 111
10. Sri Lankan Malay morphosyntax 135
11. Sri Lanka Malay 159
12. The advantages of a blockage-based etymological dictionary for proven or putative relexified languages 183
13. Part II: Variation
14. A fresh look at habitual be in AAVE 203
15. Oral narrative and tense in urban Bahamian Creole English 225
16. Aspects of variation in educated Nigerian Pidgin 243
17. A linguistic time-capsule 263
18. The progressive in the spoken Papiamentu of Aruba 291
19. Was Haitian ever more like French? 315
20. The late transfer of serial verb constructions as stylistic variants in Saramaccan creole 337
21. Index 373