Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgment ix
4. Part I: An introduction
5. 1. Noun phrases in creole languages 3
6. Part II: Portuguese-lexified Creoles
7. 2. Bare nouns and the nominal domain in Santome 37
8. 3. On the syntax and semantics of DP in Cape Verdean Creole 61
9. 4. Papiamentu and Brazilian Portuguese 107
10. 5. On the interpretation of bare noun phrases in Guinea-Bissau Portuguese Creole (Kriyol) 145
11. Part III: Spanish-lexified Creoles
12. 6. Some aspects of NPs in Mindanao Chabacano 173
13. 7. Bare nouns in Palenquero 205
14. Part IV: French-lexified Creoles
15. 8. Bare nouns in Réunionnais Creole 225
16. 9. The bare NP in Lesser Antillean 243
17. 10. Bare NPs and deficient DPs in Haitian Creole and French 265
18. Part V: A comparison of romance Creoles
19. 11. Implicit determination and plural 301
20. Part VI: English-lexified Creoles
21. 12. Bare nouns and articles in Sranan 339
22. 13. Aspects of the syntax and semantics of bare nouns in Jamaican Creole 383
23. Part VII: African American English
24. 14. NPs in aspectual Be constructions in African American English 403
25. 15. Bare nouns in African American English (AAE) 421
26. Part VIII: Dutch-lexified Creoles
27. 16. Bare nouns in Berbice Dutch Creole 437
28. Part IX: A Synthesis and a postface
29. 17. Properties of noun phrases in creole languages 461
30. 18. Functional deficiency, ellipsis or innovation in creole languages? 471
31. Index 485