Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. List of standard abbreviations ix
5. Preface xi
6. 1. The problem of multiple substrates: The case of Jamaican Creole 1
7. 2. The superstrate is not always the lexifier: Lingua Franca in the Barbary Coast 1530-1830 29
8. 3. In praise of the cafeteria principle: Language mixing in Hawai'i Creole 59
9. 4. Tense marking and inflectional morphology in Indo-Portuguese creoles 83
10. 5. Vowel epenthesis and creole syllable structure 123
11. 6. The origin of the Portuguese words in Saramaccan: Implications for sociohistory 153
12. 7. Encoding path in Mauritian Creole and Bhojpuri: Problems of language contact 169
13. 8. On the principled nature of the respective contributions of substrate and superstrate languages to a creole's lexicon 197
14. 9. Valency patterns in Seychelles Creole: Where do they come from? 225
15. 10. A first step towards the analysis of tone in Santomense 253
16. 11. Balanta, Guiné-Bissau Creole Portuguese and Portuguese: A comparison of the noun phrase 263
17. 12. Zamboangueño Chavacano and the potentive mode 279
18. 13. Between contact and internal development: Towards a multi-layered explanation for the development of the TMA system in the creoles of Suriname 301
19. 14. The formation of deverbal nouns in Vincentian Creole: Morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic processes 333
20. 15. A la recherche du "superstrat" : What North American French can and cannot tell us about the input to creolization 357
21. Personal name index 385
22. Language index 391
23. Places and Peoples index 405
24. Subject index 411