Readings in Creole Studies

1. Forward; 2. Part one: general theory; 3. 1. Prolegomena to any sane creology (by Givon, T.); 4. 2. Some remarks on the baby talk theory and the relexification theory (by Koefoed, Geert); 5. 3. Simplification, pidginization and language change (by Samarin, William J.); 6. 4. Social interaction and the development of stabilized pidgins (by Stoller, Paul); 7. 5. On the origins of the term pidgin (by Hancock, Ian F.); 8. Part two: african language related; 9. 6. Some linguistic characteristics of African-based pidgins (by Heine, Bernd); 10. 7. Commercial Dyula: a pidgin's first cousin (by Gingiss, Peter); 11. 8. Some further comments on Urban Dioula (by Partmann, Gayle); 12. 9. The context is the message: morphological, syntactic and semantic reduction and deletion in Nairobi and Kampala varieties of Swahili (by Myers-Scotton, Carol); 13. 10. Non-standard forms of Swahili in west-central Kenya (by Duran, James J.); 14. 11. The origin and development of Lingala (by Knappert, Jan); 15. 12. Free variation in the concord system of written Lingala (by Rottland, Franz); 16. 13. Fula: a language of change (by Noss, Philip A.); 17. 14. French loanwords in Sango: the motivation of lexical borrowing (by Taber, Charles R.); 18. Part three: Romance language related; 19. 15. On the origin and chronology of the French-based creoles (by Hull, Alexander); 20. 16. Creoles francais de l'Ocean Indien et langues africaines (by Chaudenson, Robert); 21. 17. Seychelles Creole French phonemics (by Corne, Chris); 22. 18. French and Creole in Guadeloupe (by Bedford, David); 23. Part four: English related; 24. 19. Creole English and Creole Portuguese: teh early records (by Dillard, J.L.); 25. 20. Cameroonian Pidgin English: a neo-African language (by Gilman, Charles); 26. 21. Cameroonian: a consideration of 'what's in a name?' (by Todd, Loreto); 27. 22. Ethnographic statement in the NIgerian novel, with special reference to Pidgin (by Hope Lee, Mary); 28. 23. Uses of Pidgin in the early literate English of Nigeria (by Tonkin, Elizabeth); 29. 24. The status of bin in the Atlantic creoles (by Bickerton, Derek); 30. 25. Across base-language boundries: the creole of Belize (British Honduras) (by Hellinger, Marlis); 31. 26. A note on creolization and the continuum (by Haynes, Lilith M.); 32. 27. Why Black English retains so m any creole (by Traugott, Elizabeth Closs); 33. List of contributors; 34. Notes on the editors