Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. INTRODUCTION 9
5. 1. ONCE MORE ON THE GENESIS OF WEST AFRICAN PORTUGUESE CREOLES 13
6. 2. THE MISSING SPANISH CREOLES ARE STILL MISSING: REVISITING AFROGENESIS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR A COHERENT THEORY OF CREOLE GENESIS 39
7. 3. ON THE RELEVANCE OF CLASSICAL PORTUGUESE FEATURES IN FOUR ATLANTIC CREOLES 67
8. 4. DOCUMENTING 17TH-CENTURY LÍNGUA DE PRETO: EVIDENCE FROM THE COIMBRA ARCHIVES 85
9. 5. MACAU PIDGIN PORTUGUESE AND CREOLE PORTUGUESE: A CONTINUUM? 113
10. 6. PHILIPPINE CREOLE SPANISH (“CHABACANO”): ACCUSATIVE MARKING IN CAVITEÑO GRAMMATICAL AND DISCURSIVE FUNCTIONS 135
11. 7. PALENQUERO AND SPANISH: WHAT’S IN THE MIX? 153
12. 8. HOW PSYCHOLINGUISTICS CAN INFORM CONTACT LINGUISTICS: CONVERGING EVIDENCE AGAINST A DECREOLIZATION VIEW OF PALENQUERO 181
13. 9. RECONSTRUCTING THE LINGUISTIC HISTORY OF PALENQUES ON THE NATURE AND RELEVANCE OF COLONIAL DOCUMENTS 205
14. 10. TRUTH RESET: PRAGMATICS IN PALENQUERO NEGATION 231
15. Contributors 269