Inflectional categories in Creole languages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Introduction IX
5. Section 1: Segments and syllables
6. Markedness, faithfulness and creolization: The retention of the unmarked 3
7. A new look at nasalization in Haitian Creole 25
8. Two types of R deletion in Haitian Creole 43
9. Rules vs. analogy: Modeling variation in word-final epenthesis in Sranan 71
10. New evidence from the past: To epenthesize or not to epenthesize? That is the question 91
11. Syllabic structure and creolization in Saotomense 109
12. Section 2: Stress, tone and intonation
13. The accentual system of Haitian Creole: The role of transfer and markedness values 123
14. African American English suprasegmentals: Α study of pitch patterns in the Black English of the United States 147
15. Section 3: Morphophonology
16. The role of tone and rhyme structure in the organisation of grammatical morphemes in Tobagonian 165
17. Prosodic contrast in Jamaican Creole reduplication 193
18. Syllable structure and lexical markedness in Creole morphophonology: Determiner allomorphy in Haitian and elsewhere 209
19. Section 4: Derivational morphology
20. Early 18th century Sranan -man 231
21. Morphological processes of word formation in Chabacano (Philippine Spanish Creole) 253
22. The -pela suffix in Tok Pisin and the notion of'simplicity' in pidgin and Creole languages: What happens to morphology under contact? 269
23. Section 5: Inflectional morphology
24. What verbal morphology can tell us about Creole genesis: the case of French-related Creoles 293
25. Inflectional plural marking in pidgins and Creoles: A comparative study 315
26. Inflectional categories in Creole languages 333
27. Subject Index 365
28. Language Index 369
29. Author Index 371