Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. The sociohistorical matrix of language contact
6. Population factors, multilingualism and the emergence of grammar 23
7. The African diaspora in Latin America 49
8. The sociohistorical matrix of creolization and the role children played in this process 79
9. Creole as necessity? Creole as choice? 101
10. Bahamian Creole English 123
11. Linguistic commonality in English of the African diaspora 145
12. Historical separations 177
13. Part 2. Sources of grammar and processes of language contact
14. Some observations on the sources of AAVE structure 203
15. Unity in diversity 225
16. Krio as the Western Maroon Creole language of Jamaica, and the /na/ isogloss 251
17. Number marking in Jamaican Patwa 275
18. Variationist creolistics, with a phonological focus 305
19. Pidginization versus second language acquisition 323
20. Crosslinguistic effects in adjectivization strategies in Suriname, Ghana and Togo 343
21. Author index 363
22. Language index 365
23. Subject index 367