Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles.

ISBN: 9789027252432 出版年：2000 页码：513 John McWhorter John Benjamins Publishing Company

1. Preface 2. Verb Movement in four Creole Languages: A Comparative Analysis (by Baptista, Marlyse) 3. Notes on Componential Diffusion in the Genesis of the Kabuverdianu Cluster (by Bartens, Angela) 4. "High" Kweyol: The Emergence of a Formal Creole Register in St Lucia (by Garrett, Paul B.) 5. From Latin to Early Romance: A Case of Partial Creolization? (by Goyette, Stephane) 6. The Creole verb: A Comparative Study of Stativity and Time Reference (by Holm, John) 7. Are Creole Languages "Perfect" Languages? (by Kihm, Alain) 8. The Origin of the Syntax and Semantics of Property Items in the Surinamese Plantation Creole (by Migge, Bettina) 9. Variable Concord in Portuguese: The Situation in Brazil and Portugal (by Naro, Anthony J.) 10. Nativization and the genesis of Hawaiian Creole (by Roberts, Sarah J.) 11. The Status of Sango in Fact and Fiction. On the one-hundredth anniversary of its conception (by Samarin, William J.) 12. Optimality Theory, the Minimal-Word Constraint, and the Historical Sequencing of Substrate Influence in Pidgin/Creole Genesis (by Singler, John Victor) 13. The Story of kom in Nigerian Pidgin English (by Tagliamonte, Sali A.) 14. Tense and Aspect in Sranan and the Creole Prototype (by Winford, Donald) 15. Chaos and Creoles. Towards a New Paradigm? (by Lang, George) 16. Wh-words and Question Formation in Pidgin/Creole Languages (by Clements, J. Clancy) 17. Index