Index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Marginalized peoples, racialized slavery and the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles 1
6. African agency in the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles 41
7. Women and colonial era creolization 55
8. Indigenous peoples and the emergence of the Caribbean Creoles 81
9. Linguistic evidence for the influence of indigenous Caribbean grammars on the grammars of the Atlantic Creoles 111
10. Sociétés de cohabitation and the similarities between the English lexifier Creoles of the Atlantic and the Pacific 149
11. Influences of Houma ancestral languages on Houma French 185
12. Marginalized peoples and Creole Genesis 215
13. References 225
14. Index 239