Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vi
4. Introduction vii
5. Creolization, Linguistic Universals, Natural Semantax and the Brain 1
6. The Adequacy of Certain Theories in Accounting for Important Grammatical Relationship in a Creole Language 19
7. On the Notion of Decreolization and St. Kitts Creole Personal Pronouns 39
8. The Creole Situation in the Context of Sociolinguistic Studies 51
9. How Does Doz Disappear? 77
10. From Preposistion to Complementizer in Caribbean English Creole 97
11. A Creole English Continuum and the Theory of Grammar 111
12. Bahamian English — A Non-Continuum? 133
13. Sufficiency Conditions for a Prior Creolization of Black English 147
14. Lexicalization in Black English 163
15. Appendix: List of Papers Presented 181