Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Contents ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Identifying Creoles
7. St Helena English 17
8. American Indian English 29
9. 2. Language Variation
10. Style, Status, Change 43
11. Using the Future to Explain the Past 61
12. Decreolization or Dialect Contact in Haiti? 75
13. 3. Creole Processes
14. From Botany to Creolistics 91
15. Ndjuka Organisation of Experience 101
16. A Reexamination of Bickerton’s Phylogenesis Hypothesis 111
17. 4. Creole Syntax and Semantics
18. Pidgins, Creoles, Typology, and Markedness 123
19. The Binding Theory and Creolization 145
20. On the Copula in Mauritian Creole, Past and Present 159
21. 5. Serial Verbs
22. Serialization in Creole Oral Discourse 179
23. The Definition of Serial Verbs 193
24. Approaches to ‘Missing” Internal (and External) Arguments in Serial Structure 207