Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Forward vii
3. Table of contents xi
4. Part one: general theory
5. 1. Prolegomena to any sane creology 3
6. 2. Some remarks on the baby talk theory and the relexification theory 37
7. 3. Simplification, pidginization and language change 55
8. 4. Social interaction and the development of stabilized pidgins 69
9. 5. On the origins of the term pidgin 81
10. Part two: african language related
11. 6. Some linguistic characteristics of African-based pidgins 89
12. 7. Commercial Dyula: a pidgin's first cousin 99
13. 8. Some further comments on Urban Dioula 107
14. 9. The context is the message: morphological, syntactic and semantic reduction and deletion in Nairobi and Kampala varieties of Swahili 111
15. 10. Non-standard forms of Swahili in west-central Kenya 129
16. 11. The origin and development of Lingala 153
17. 12. Free variation in the concord system of written Lingala 165
18. 13. Fula: a language of change 173
19. 14. French loanwords in Sango: the motivation of lexical borrowing 189
20. Part three: Romance language related
21. 15. On the origin and chronology of the French-based creoles 201
22. 16. Créoles français de l'Ocean Indien et langues africaines 217
23. 17. Seychelles Creole French phonemics 239
24. 18. French and Creole in Guadeloupe 253
25. Part four: English related
26. 19. Creole English and Creole Portuguese: teh early records 261
27. 20. Cameroonian Pidgin English: a neo-African language 269
28. 21. Cameroonian: a consideration of 'what's in a name?' 281
29. 22. Ethnographic statement in the NIgerian novel, with special reference to Pidgin 295
30. 23. Uses of Pidgin in the early literate English of Nigeria 303
31. 24. The status of bin in the Atlantic creoles 309
32. 25. Across base-language boundries: the creole of Belize (British Honduras) 315
33. 26. A note on creolization and the continuum 335
34. 27. Why Black English retains so m any creole 339
35. Alphabetical list of contributors
36. Addresses 349
37. Notes on the editors 351