Development and Structures of Creole Languages

1. Preface; 2. Contents; 3. Introduction: Innovation and Excellence within a Scholary Tradition (by Byrne, Francis); 4. 1. Identifying Creoles; 5. St Helena English (by Hancock, Ian F.); 6. American Indian English: A Phylogenetic Dilemma (by Bartelt, H. Guillermo); 7. 2. Language Variation; 8. Style, Status, Change: Three Sociolinguistic Axioms (by Preston, Dennis R.); 9. Using the Future o Explain the Past (by Sankoff, Gillian); 10. Decreolization or Dialect Contact in Haiti? (by Valdman, Albert); 11. 3. Creole Processes; 12. From Botany to Creolistics: The Contribution of the Lexicon on the Flora to the Debate on Indian Ocean creole Genesis (by Chaudenson, Robert); 13. Ndjuka Organisation of Experience: African or Universal? (by Huttar, George L.); 14. A Reexamination of Bickerton's Phylogenesis Hypothesis (by Black, Mary C.); 15. 4. Creole Syntax and Semantics; 16. Pidgins, Creoles, Typology, and Markedness (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.); 17. The Binding Theory and Creolization: Evidence from 18th Century Negerhollands Reflexives (by Muysken, Pieter); 18. On the Copula in Mauritian Creole, Past and Present (by Baker, Philip); 19. 5. Serial Verbs; 20. Serialization in Creole Oral Discourse (by Escure, Genevieve); 21. The Definition of Serial Verbs (by Seuren, Pieter A.M.); 22. Approaches to 'Missing" Internal (and External) Arguments in Serial Structure: Some Presumed Difficulties (by Byrne, Francis)