Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology

1. Preface; 2. Introduction; 3. The problem of the typological classification of creoles (by Lefebvre, Claire); 4. Creoles spoken in Africa and in the Caribbean; 5. Edo influence on Santome: Evidence from verb serialisation (by Hagemeijer, Tjerk); 6. A Wolof trace in the verbal system of the Portuguese Creole of Santiago Island (Cape Verde) (by Lang, Jurgen); 7. Substrate influences in Kriyol: Guinea-Bissau and Casamance Portuguese-related Creole (by Kihm, Alain); 8. One substrate, two creoles: The development of segmental inventories in St. Lucian and Haitian (by Brousseau, Anne-Marie); 9. Substrate features in the properties of verbs in three Atlantic creoles: Haitian Creole, Saramaccan and Papiamentu (by Lefebvre, Claire); 10. Assessing the nature and role of substrate influence in the formation and development of the creoles of Suriname (by Migge, Bettina); 11. African substratal influence on the counterfactual in Belizean Creole (by Escure, Genevieve); 12. Substrate features in Nicaraguan, Providence and San Andres Creole Englishes: A comparison with Twi (by Bartens, Angela); 13. Palenque(ro): The search for its African substrate (by Schwegler, Armin); 14. Creoles spoken in Asia; 15. Convergence-to-substratum and the passives in Singapore English (by Bao, Zhiming); 16. Tone in Singlish: Substrate features from Sinitic and Malay (by Lim, Lisa); 17. The Cantonese substrate in China Coast Pidgin (by Ansaldo, Umberto); 18. Substrate influences in Mindanao Chabacano (by Grant, Anthony P.); 19. Negation in Ternate Chabacano (by Sippola, Eeva); 20. Aspect and directionality in Kupang Malay serial verb constructions: Calquing on the grammars of substrate languages (by Jacob, June); 21. Sri Lanka Malay and its Lankan adstrates (by Ansaldo, Umberto); 22. Dravidian features in the Sri Lankan Malay verb (by Slomanson, Peter); 23. Creoles spoken in the Pacific; 24. Papuan Malay of New Guinea: Melanesian influence on verb and clause structure (by Donohue, Mark); 25. The influence of Arandic languages on Central Australian Aboriginal English (by Koch, Harold); 26. Roper River Aboriginal language features in Australian Kriol: Considering semantic categories (by Munro, Jennifer); 27. Substrate influences on New South Wales Pidgin: The origin of -im and -fela (by Koch, Harold); 28. Limits of the substrate: Substrate grammatical influence in Solomon Islands Pijin (by Terrill, Angela); 29. Substrate reinforcement and the retention of Pan-Pacific Pidgin features in modern contact varieties (by Siegel, Jeff); 30. The copula in Hawai'i Creole English and substrate reinforcement (by Roberts, Sarah J.); 31. "On traduit la langue en francais": Substrate influence in the TMA system of Tayo (by Sandeman, Barbara); 32. Conclusion; 33. Creoles and language typology (by Comrie, Bernard); 34. Index of authors; 35. Index of languages and language families; 36. Index of subjects