Issues in English creoles
Subtitle: papers from the 1975 Hawaii conference
By: edited by Richard R. Day.
Contributors: Day, Richard R.; International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles (1975 : Honolulu, Hawaii)
Series: Varieties of English around the world.; v. 2
Publisher: Groos
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Creole dialects, English -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Papers first presented at the International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, January 5-10, 1975.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Richard R. Day; title: Creolization, linguistic universals, natural semantax, and the brain / Derek Bickerton; title: The adequacy of certain theories in accounting for important grammatical relationships in a creole language / Robert A. Peters; title: On the notion of decreolization and St. Kitts Creole personal pronouns / Vincent O. Cooper; title: The creole situation in the context of sociolinguistic studies / Donald Winford; title: How does doz disappear? / John R. Rickford; title: From preposition to complementizer in Caribbean English Creole / William Washabaugh; title: A Creole English continuum and the theory of grammar / Dennis R. Craig; title: Bahamian English, a non-continuum? / Alison Shilling; title: Sufficiency conditions for a prior creolization of Black English / Robert Berdan; title: Lexicalization in Black English / Carol W. Pfaff.