Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Links between SLA and Creole studies 15
6. I. Contact
7. Very rapid Creolization in the framework of the restricted motivation hypothesis 49
8. Semantic transference 67
9. Variability in contact Spanish 87
10. L2 Acquisition as a process of Creolization 113
11. Emerging complementizers 145
12. II. Processes
13. Full transfer and relexification 169
14. Transfer as bootstrapping 183
15. LI transfer and the cut-off point for L2 acquisition processes in Creole formation 205
16. The role of the syntax-semantics interface in language transfer 221
17. A Comparison of article semantics in L2 acquisition and Creole languages 253
18. III. Processes
19. Bilingual grammars and Creoles 277
20. From GBE to Haitian 295
21. Parallels in process 331
22. IV.Processes
23. External and internal factors in billingual and bidialectal language development 355
24. Incomplete acquisition in bilingualism as an instance of language change 379
25. Comparing Creole genisis with SLA in unlimited-acces contexts 401
26. Index of Languages and language families 429
27. Index of subjects 431