Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction
5. The problem of the typological classification of creoles 3
6. Creoles spoken in Africa and in the Caribbean
7. Èdó influence on Santome 37
8. A Wolof trace in the verbal system of the Portuguese Creole of Santiago Island (Cape Verde) 61
9. Substrate influences in Kriyol 81
10. One substrate, two creoles 105
11. Substrate features in the properties of verbs in three Atlantic creoles 127
12. Assessing the nature and role of substrate influence in the formation and development of the creoles of Suriname 155
13. African substratal influence on the counterfactual in Belizean Creole 181
14. Substrate features in Nicaraguan, Providence and San Andrés Creole Englishes 201
15. Palenque(ro) 225
16. Creoles spoken in Asia
17. Convergence-to-substratum and the passives in Singapore English 253
18. Tone in Singlish 271
19. The Cantonese substrate in China Coast Pidgin 289
20. Substrate influences in Mindanao Chabacano 303
21. Negation in Ternate Chabacano 325
22. Aspect and directionality in Kupang Malay serial verb constructions 337
23. Sri Lanka Malay and its Lankan adstrates 367
24. Dravidian features in the Sri Lankan Malay verb 383
25. Creoles spoken in the Pacific
26. Papuan Malay of New Guinea 413
27. The influence of Arandic languages on Central Australian Aboriginal English 437
28. Roper River Aboriginal language features in Australian Kriol 461
29. Substrate influences on New South Wales Pidgin 489
30. Limits of the substrate 513
31. Substrate reinforcement and the retention of Pan-Pacific Pidgin features in modern contact varieties 531
32. The copula in Hawai‘i Creole English and substrate reinforcement 557
33. “On traduit la langue en français” 575
34. Conclusion
35. Creoles and language typology 599
36. Index of authors 613
37. Index of languages and language families 619
38. Index of subjects 623