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