Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 2. Key concepts in the history of creole studies 5
6. Chapter 3. Phylogenetics in biology and linguistics 35
7. Chapter 4. Methods 59
8. Chapter 5. Creole typology I 79
9. Chapter 6. Creole typology II 103
10. Chapter 7. West African languages and creoles worldwide 141
11. Chapter 8. The typology and classification of French-based creoles 175
12. Chapter 9. The simple emerging from the complex 193
13. Chapter 10. Dutch creoles compared with their lexifier 219
14. Chapter 11. Similarities and differences among Iberian creoles 241
15. Chapter 12. Afro-Hispanic varieties in comparison 269
16. Chapter 13. Cognitive creolistics and semantic primes 293
17. Chapter 14. Lexicalization patterns in core vocabulary 315
18. Chapter 15. The semantics of Englishes and Creoles 345
19. Chapter 16. Feature pools show that creoles are distinct languages due to their special origin 369
20. Chapter 17. Complementing creole studies with phylogenetics 375
21. Chapter 18. From basic to cultural semantics 381
22. Chapter 19. Linguistics and evolutionary biology continue to cross-fertilize each other and may do so even more in the future, including in the field of creolistics 385
23. Chapter 20. Epilogue 389
24. Language index 395
25. People index 401
26. Places index 407
27. Subject index 409