10. Copula patterns in Hawai‛i Creole: Creole origin and decreolization

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Part I
5. 1. Maintenance or assimilation? Phonological variation and change in the realization of / t / by British Barbadians 3
6. 2. Universal and substrate influence on the phonotactics and syllable structure of Krio 23
7. 3. Tone on quantifiers in Saramaccan as a transferred feature from Kikongo 43
8. 4. Morphophonological properties of pitch accents in Jamaican Creole reduplication 67
9. 5. Effort reduction and the grammar: Liquid phonology in Haitian and St. Lucian 91
10. Part II
11. 6. Reflexivity in Capeverdean: Predicate properties and sentence structure 117
12. 7. An additional pronoun and hierarchies in creolized Chinúk Wawa 129
13. 8. Three irregular verbs in Gullah 159
14. 9. Afro-Bolivian Spanish: The survival of a true creole prototype 175
15. 10. Copula patterns in Hawai‛i Creole: Creole origin and decreolization 199
16. Part III
17. 11. On the properties of Papiamentu pa : Synchronic and diachronic perspectives 215
18. 12. No exception to the rule: The tense-aspect-modality system of Papiamentu reconsidered 257
19. 13. A look at so in Mauritian Creole: From possessive pronoun to emphatic determiner 279
20. 14. Chinese Spanish in 19th century Cuba: Documenting sociohistorical context 297
21. 15. Comparative perspectives on the origins, development and structure of Amazonian (Karipúna) French Creole 325
22. Index 359