The early stages of creolization
By: edited by Jacques Arends.
Contributors: Arends, Jacques.
Series: Creole language library,; v. 13
Publisher: J. Benjamins; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Creole dialects -- History.
Description: For review see: John H. McWhorter, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 71, no. 1 & 2 (1997); p. 174-178.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Some developmental inferences from the historical studies of pidgins and creoles / Philip Baker; title: Eighteenth-century Negerhollands reflexives revisted / Hein van der Voort and Pieter Muysken; title: Early creole writing and its effects on the discovery of creole language structure : the case of eighteenth-century Negerhollands / Peter Stein; title: The Negerhollands word sender in eighteenth-century manuscripts / Frans Hinskens and Cefas van Rossem; title: Early Bajan : creole or non-creole? / Linda Fields; title: The emergence of taki as a complementizer in Sranan : on substrate influence, universals, and gradual Creolization / Ingo Plag; title: Relative clauses in early Sranan / Adrienne Bruyn; title: The demographics of creole genesis in the Caribbean : a comparison of Martinique and Haiti / John Victor Singler; title: Demographic factors in the formation of Sranan / Jacques Arends.