Language contact in China: Is Mandarin Chinese derived from a pidgin?

Chapters in this book

1. I-XIV I
2. Tadpoles, cuckoos, and multiple births: Language contact and models of change 1
3. Language contact leading to language change: The case of Northern Norway 15
4. Middle English is a creole and its opposite: On the value of plausible speculation 35
5. On the origin of Middle and Modern English 51
6. Notes on the history of word-final /g/ in English 55
7. Anglo-French and Medieval English scribal practice: The case of Middle English <-ed, -et> and <-id, -it> for common <-eþ, -eth> 81
8. Through the looking-glass: Stress rules in collison 97
9. An assessment of language contact in the development of Irish English 109
10. Language contact in China: Is Mandarin Chinese derived from a pidgin? 131
11. Glottochronology and the method of comparing the vocabulary in parallel texts 149
12. On the growing role of semantic and pragmatic features in Middle English 161
13. On the impact of language contact on inflectional systems: The reduction of verb inflection in American in Dutch and American Frisian 179
14. The English double modals: Internal or external change? 207
15. Contact, social variants, parameter setting, and pragmatic function: An example from the history of French syntax 217
16. Black—White language contact through the centuries: Diachronic aspects of linguistic convergence or divergence in the United States of America 237
17. Lexico-syntactic modeling across the bilingual continuum 253
18. Agreement between past participle and direct object in Catalan: The hypothesis of Castilian influence revisited 271
19. Linguistic contacts across the English Channel: The case of the Breton retroflex <r> 291
20. Verbal -s inflection in "early" American Black English 315
21. Kent and the Low Countries revisited 327
22. Middle English {-ende} and {-ing}: A possible route to grammaticalisation 365
23. Language contact and syntactic change: Some formal linguistic diagnostics 383
24. Index of subjects 421
25. Index of languages and dialects 425
26. Index of names 429