The complexity that really matters: The role of political economy in creole genesis

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements xi
4. Deconstructing creole: The rationale 1
5. Part I: Typology and grammar
6. Creole morphology revisited 21
7. The role of typology in language creation: A descriptive take 39
8. Creoles, complexity and associational semantics 67
9. Admixture and after: The Chamic languages and the Creole prototype 109
10. Relexification and pidgin development: The case of Cape Dutch Pidgin 141
11. Part II: Sociohistorical contexts
12. Transmission and transfer 167
13. The sociolinguistic history of the Peranakans: What it tells us about 'creolization' 203
14. The complexity that really matters: The role of political economy in creole genesis 227
15. Creole metaphors in cultural analysis 265
16. Index 287