SubjectsLinguistics / Creole studies
Book series
ISSN 2542-7059
Journal
Names and Naming
Edited by Philipp Krämer, Eeva Sippola and Rachel Selbach
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 41:1 (2026) v, 172 pp.
Dialect on Air: Bahamian Creole in historical radio broadcasts
Diana Wengler
Despite the increasing interest in diachronic linguistic studies, such research remains particularly scarce for creole varieties, largely due to the limited availability of historical data on non-standard languages. This book addresses this gap by introducing a soap opera from the early 1970s as a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G71] 2025. xvii, 198 pp.
New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole: Standardization, grammar and language use
Edited by Muhsina Alleesaib and Julie Lefort
In the South-West Indian Ocean, Mauritius and Reunion are part of a group of islands where French-based Creoles are spoken. In spite of their geographical proximity, Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole are strikingly different in their morphosyntax. The first part of this volume describes some… read more[Contact Language Library, 61] 2025. vi, 326 pp.
Australian Contact Languages
Edited by Carmel O'Shannessy, Denise Angelo and Jane Simpson
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:1 (2024) vi, 311 pp.
Language Contact with Chinese
Edited by Zhiming Bao
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:1 (2023) vi, 206 pp.
Approaches to Variation in Creole Studies
Edited by Isabelle Léglise, Bettina Migge and Nicolas Quint
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 36:1 (2021) v, 219 pp.
Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
Edited by Diana Forker and Lenore A. Grenoble
The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying histories of language contact. This is the first book that bundles… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 50] 2021. vi, 386 pp.
Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken
Edited by Norval Smith, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh
Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of… read more[Contact Language Library, 57] 2020. ix, 400 pp.
Palenquero and Spanish in Contact: Exploring the interface
John M. Lipski
Bilingual speakers are normally aware of what language they are speaking or hearing; there is, however, no widely accepted consensus on the degree of lexical and morphosyntactic similarity that defines the psycholinguistic threshold of distinct languages. This book focuses on the Afro-Colombian… read more[Contact Language Library, 56] 2020. xvii, 318 pp.
World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian diaspora in the USA
Mirka Honkanen
World Englishes on the Web focuses on linguistic practices at the intersection of international migration and social media, examining the language repertoires of Nigerians living in the United States, and their negotiations of identity and authenticity on a Nigerian web forum. Based on a large… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G63] 2020. vii, 338 pp.
Negation and Negative Concord: The view from Creoles
Edited by Viviane Déprez and Fabiola Henri
While universally present in languages, negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages, however, negation and negative dependencies have been regarded as largely uniform. Creole languages as Bickerton claims in Roots of Language, generally… read more[Contact Language Library, 55] 2018. x, 327 pp.
Cameroon Pidgin English: A comprehensive grammar
Miriam Ayafor and Melanie Green
Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE) is an English-lexified Atlantic expanded pidgin/creole spoken in some form by an estimated 50% of Cameroon’s population, primarily in the anglophone west regions, but also in urban centres throughout the country. Primarily a spoken language, CPE enjoys a vigorous oral… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 20] 2017. xxi, 314 pp.
Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches
Edited by Peter Bakker, Finn Borchsenius, Carsten Levisen and Eeva Sippola
This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Phylogenetic approaches offer new visualisation techniques and insights into the relationships between creoles and non-creoles, creoles and other contact varieties, and between creoles and lexifier… read more
Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler
Edited by Cecelia Cutler, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer
Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas brings together the original research of nineteen leading scholars on language contact and pidgin/creole genesis. In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to the role of historical, cultural and demographic factors in… read more[Creole Language Library, 53] 2017. vii, 369 pp.
Language Variation on Jamaican Radio
Michael Westphal
This volume presents an in-depth analysis of language variation in Jamaican radio newscasts and talk shows. It explores the interaction of global and local varieties of English with regard to newscasters’ and talk show hosts’ language use and listeners’ attitudes. The book illustrates the benefits… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G60] 2017. xvi, 257 pp.
Language and Slavery: A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles
Jacques Arends
This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little… read more
Orality, Identity, and Resistance in Palenque (Colombia): An interdisciplinary approach
Edited by Armin Schwegler, Bryan Kirschen and Graciela Maglia
Located near Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Palenque is a former Afro-Hispanic maroon community that has recently attracted much national and international attention. The authors of this collection examine Palenque’s linguistic, geographic, and cultural origins from interdisciplinary and… read more[Contact Language Library, 54] 2017. xvii, 323 pp.
Afro-Peruvian Spanish: Spanish slavery and the legacy of Spanish Creoles
Sandro Sessarego
The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the genesis of Spanish creoles in the Americas in a broader sense. In order to provide a more concrete answer to… read more
Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu
Claire Lefebvre
This book is about the functional categories of three Caribbean creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian Creole and Papiamentu with two specific goals. The first one is to evaluate the respective contribution of the source languages to the functional categories of these three creoles. The second is to evaluate… read more[Creole Language Library, 50] 2015. xvii, 386 pp.
Jamaican Creole Goes Web: Sociolinguistic styling and authenticity in a digital 'Yaad'
Andrea Moll
Large-scale migration after WWII and the prominence of Jamaican Creole in the media have promoted its use all around the globe. Deterritorialisation has entailed the contact-induced transformation of Jamaican Creole in diaspora communities and its adoption by ‘crossers’. Taking sociolinguistic… read more[Creole Language Library, 49] 2015. viii, 294 pp.
Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Edited by Paula Prescod
This collection is a pioneer study of linguistic phenomena in St Vincent and the Grenadines, written by scholars who are both respected in their field of research and connected to the linguistic realities in the geographic area under investigation. This book covers the subfields of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G51] 2015. xv, 191 pp.
Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages: An Introduction
Viveka Velupillai
This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics. Part I presents the theoretical background, with chapters devoted to the definition of terms, the… read more[Creole Language Library, 48] 2015. xxvii, 599 pp.
Traveling Conceptualizations: A cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican
Andrea Hollington
Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican. It contributes to the study of Transatlantic relations between Africa and Jamaica, and in particular to the understanding of African influences in Jamaican linguistic practices. The… read more[Culture and Language Use, 14] 2015. xxiv, 242 pp.
Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles
Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:2 (2014) v, 253 pp.
Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters
Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller, Anders Holmberg and Mohammad Almoaily
Most of what we know about pidgin and creole languages is the result of research into contact languages that developed as a consequence of European expansion into Africa and the Caribbean. The narrow focus on European lexifier and West African substrate languages has resulted in insufficient… read more[Creole Language Library, 47] 2014. v, 178 pp.
The Sociolinguistics of Grammar
Edited by Tor A. Åfarli and Brit Mæhlum
The aim of this book is to investigate and attain new insights on how and to what extent the wider sociolinguistic context of language use and contact impinges on formal grammatical structures. The papers contained in the book approach this important problem from various points of view by focusing… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 154] 2014. v, 260 pp.
Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology
Edited by Parth Bhatt and Tonjes Veenstra
It is generally assumed that Creole languages form a separate category from the rest of the world’s languages. The papers in this volume, written by internationally renowned scholars in the field of Creole studies, seek to explore more deeply this commonly held assumption by comparing the… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 57] 2013. v, 279 pp.
The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings
Edited by Isabelle Léglise and Claudine Chamoreau
This volume is at the cross-roads between two research traditions dealing with language change: contact linguistics and language variation and change. It starts out from the notion that linguistic variation is still a little researched area in most contact-induced language change studies. Intending… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 12] 2013. vii, 264 pp.
Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages: The role of women, renegades, and people of African and indigenous descent in the emergence of the colonial era creoles
Edited by Nicholas Faraclas
This book is a ‘must read’ for those who are looking for fresh perspectives on the process of creolization of language. Focusing on peoples whose agency has too often been rendered invisible in colonial and neo-colonial history and on voices which have too often been silenced in linguistic accounts… read more[Creole Language Library, 45] 2012. xiii, 246 pp.
The Defective Copy Theory of Movement: Evidence from wh-constructions in Cape Verdean Creole
Nélia Alexandre
Within the framework of Chomsky’s Principles and Parameters Theory and the Minimalist Program, this work presents a detailed discussion of the different types of wh-question formation and relativization strategies in Cape Verdean Creole (Santiago variety), especially focusing on wh-movement of PPs.… read more[Creole Language Library, 41] 2012. xvi, 249 pp.
Ibero-Asian Creoles: Comparative Perspectives
Edited by Hugo C. Cardoso, Alan N. Baxter and Mário Pinharanda-Nunes
Starting in 1498, contact between Ibero-Romance and Asian languages has taken place along a vast stretch of the coastlines of continental and insular Asia, producing a string of contact varieties which are among the least visible in the field of Creole Studies. This volume, the first one dedicated… read more[Creole Language Library, 46] 2012. xi, 375 pp.
The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole Languages
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Norval Smith and Anne Zribi-Hertz
This is a new contribution to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. Reiteration is meant to denote any situation where the same form occurs (at least) twice within the boundaries of some linguistic domain. By including two case studies bearing on Hebrew and… read more[Creole Language Library, 43] 2012. vii, 287 pp.
Phonological Variation in Rural Jamaican Schools
Véronique Lacoste
This book investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language variety in rural Jamaica. For sociolinguists and second language/dialect researchers interested in the acquisition and use of sociolinguistic variables, an… read more[Creole Language Library, 42] 2012. xiv, 293 pp.
Pidgins and Creoles in Asia
Edited by Umberto Ansaldo
This book shifts the focus of Pidgin and Creole Studies from the better-known Atlantic/Caribbean contexts to the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea and Mongolia. By looking at Asian contexts before and after Western colonial expansion, we offer readers insights into language contact in historical… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 38] 2012. ix, 170 pp.
Roots of Afrikaans: Selected writings of Hans den Besten
Edited by Ton van der Wouden
Hans den Besten (1948-2010) made numerous contributions to Afrikaans linguistics over a period of nearly three decades. His writings helped shift the perspective on the roots of Afrikaans beyond Dutch to the structure and vocabulary of Khoekhoe, to Portuguese Creole, and to Malay varieties. This… read more[Creole Language Library, 44] 2012. vii, 458 pp.
Case-Marking in Contact: The development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol
Felicity Meakins
Until recently, mixed languages were considered an oddity of contact linguistics, with debates about whether or not they actually existed stifling much descriptive work or discussion of their origins. These debates have shifted from questioning their existence to a focus on their formation, and… read more[Creole Language Library, 39] 2011. xxi, 311 pp.
Creoles and Typology
Edited by Parth Bhatt and Tonjes Veenstra
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:1 (2011) v, 233 pp.
Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology
Edited by Claire Lefebvre
Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 95] 2011. ix, 626 pp.
Kwéyòl in Postcolonial Saint Lucia: Globalization, language planning, and national development
Aonghas St-Hilaire
Can historically marginalized, threatened languages be saved in the contemporary global era? In relation to the wider postcolonial world, especially the Caribbean, this book focuses on efforts to preserve and promote Lesser Antillean French Creole – Kwéyòl – as the national language of Saint Lucia… read more[Creole Language Library, 40] 2011. xv, 316 pp.
Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations
Edited by J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden
The studies in Language Change in Contact Languages showcase the contributions that the study of contact language varieties make to the understanding of phenomena such as relexification, transfer, reanalysis, grammaticalization, prosodic variation and the development of prosodic systems. Four of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 36] 2011. v, 241 pp.
The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System: A case study of Mauritian creole
Diana Guillemin
Within the framework of Chomsky’s Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantificational determiners, which agglutinated to nouns,… read more[Creole Language Library, 38] 2011. xviii, 310 pp.
Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to individual agency
Edited by Lars Hinrichs and Joseph T. Farquharson
The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics as an academic field. It has yielded influential theory, such as the (post-)creole continuum or the 'Acts of Identity' models, that has shaped sociolinguistics far beyond creole… read more[Creole Language Library, 37] 2011. vi, 276 pp.
Creoles in Education: An appraisal of current programs and projects
Edited by Bettina Migge, Isabelle Léglise and Angela Bartens
This volume offers a first survey of projects from around the world that seek to implement Creole languages in education. In contrast to previous works, this volume takes a holistic approach. Chapters discuss the sociolinguistic, educational and ideological context of projects, policy developments… read more[Creole Language Library, 36] 2010. vii, 356 pp.
Pidgins and Creoles in Asian Contexts
Edited by Umberto Ansaldo
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 25:1 (2010) v, 199 pp.
Complex Processes in New Languages
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh and Norval Smith
In recent years, there has been a new interest in evaluating ‘complex’ structures in languages. The implications of such studies are varied, e.g., the distinction between supposedly more complex and less complex languages, how complexity relates to human knowledge of language, and the role of the… read more[Creole Language Library, 35] 2009. vii, 409 pp.
Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends
Edited by Rachel Selbach, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg
Is creolization an abrupt or a gradual process? In this volume leading scholars provide both comparative and case studies that outline their working definitions and their views on the particular or average time depth, or key processes necessary for contact language formation, providing a… read more[Creole Language Library, 34] 2009. x, 392 pp.
Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change
Edited by Matti Miestamo, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson
Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume – a thematic selection of papers from the conference Approaches to Complexity in Language, held in Helsinki, August 2005 – is the first collection of articles devoted to the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 94] 2008. xiv, 356 pp.
Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates
Edited by Susanne Maria Michaelis
This book reflects an ongoing shift in the study of contact languages: After a period of history-free universalism, it directs the attention to the individual historical circumstances under which the pidgin and creole languages arose. The contributions deal with different areas of language… read more[Creole Language Library, 33] 2008. xvii, 425 pp.
The Syntax of Jamaican Creole: A cartographic perspective
Stephanie Durrleman
This book offers an in-depth study of the overall syntax of (basilectal) Jamaican Creole, the first since Bailey (1966). The author, a Jamaican linguist, meticulously examines distributional and interpretative properties of functional morphology in Jamaican Creole (JC) from a cartographic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 127] 2008. xii, 190 pp.
Deconstructing Creole
Edited by Umberto Ansaldo, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim
Deconstructing Creole is a collection of studies aimed at critically assessing the idea of creole languages as a homogeneous structural type with shared and peculiar patterns of genesis. Following up on the critical discussion of notions of ‘creole exceptionalism’ as historical and ideological… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 73] 2007. xii, 292 pp.
Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach
Edited by Marlyse Baptista and Jacqueline Guéron
This volume offers a thorough examination of the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse properties of noun phrases in a wide variety of creole (and non-creole) languages including Cape Verdean Creole, Santome, Papiamentu, Guinea-Bissau Creole, Mindanao Chabacano, Réunionnais Creole, Lesser… read more[Creole Language Library, 31] 2007. x, 494 pp.
Substrate Influence in Creole Formation
Edited by Bettina Migge and Norval Smith
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22:1 (2007) 200 pp.
Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages
Edited by Magnus Huber and Viveka Velupillai
This collection of selected conference papers from three SPCL meetings brings together a cross-fertilization of approaches to the study of contact languages. The articles are grouped into three coherent sections dealing with, respectively, phonetics and phonology, including Optimality Theory;… read more[Creole Language Library, 32] 2007. xii, 370 pp.
Codeswitching on the Web: English and Jamaican Creole in e-mail communication
Lars Hinrichs
Based on a corpus of private email from Jamaican university students, this study explores the discourse functions of Jamaican Creole in computer-mediated communication. From this participant-centered perspective, it contributes to the longstanding theoretical debates in creole studies about the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 147] 2006. x, 302 pp.
History, Society and Variation: In honor of Albert Valdman
Edited by J. Clancy Clements, Thomas A. Klingler, Deborah Piston-Hatlen and Kevin J. Rottet
This volume presents a collection of new articles by sixteen specialists in the field of pidgin and creole studies, assembled in honor of the world-renowned creolist, Albert Valdman. The articles, written from a variety of theoretical perspectives, are organized thematically in three sections: on… read more[Creole Language Library, 28] 2006. vi, 304 pp.
L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues
Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan
In this volume, second language (L2) acquisition researchers and creolists engage in a dialogue, focusing on processes at work in L2 acquisition and creole genesis. The volume opens with an overview of the relationship between L2 acquisition and pidgins/creoles (Siegel). The first group of papers… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 42] 2006. viii, 433 pp.
Structure and Variation in Language Contact
Edited by Ana Deumert and Stephanie Durrleman
This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions reflect – from various perspectives and using different types of data – on the interplay between structure and variation in contact… read more[Creole Language Library, 29] 2006. viii, 376 pp.
Creole Language in Creole Literatures
Edited by Susanne Mühleisen
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 20:1 (2005) 232 pp.
Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles
Edited by Susanne Mühleisen and Bettina Migge
Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles is the first collection to focus on socio-pragmatic issues in the Caribbean context, including the socio-cultural rules and principles underlying strategic language use. While the Caribbean has long been recognized as a rich and interesting site where… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G34] 2005. viii, 293 pp.
Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications
Edited by Geneviève Escure and Armin Schwegler
This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of… read more[Creole Language Library, 27] 2004. x, 355 pp.
Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Claire Lefebvre
The content of this book is concerned with various issues at stake in Creole studies that are also of interest for general linguistics. These include the general issue of Creole genesis and of the accelerated linguistic change that characterizes the emergence of these languages as compared to… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 70] 2004. xvi, 358 pp.
Urban Bahamian Creole: System and variation
Stephanie Hackert
This volume, a detailed empirical study of the creole English spoken in the Bahamian capital, Nassau, contributes to our understanding of both urban creoles and tense-aspect marking in creoles. The first part traces the development of a creole in the Bahamas via socio-demographic data and outlines… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G32] 2004. xiv, 254 pp.
Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean
Edited by Michael Aceto and Jeffrey P. Williams
Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean is the first collection to focus, via primary linguistic fieldwork, on the underrepresented and neglected area of the Anglophone Eastern Caribbean. The following islands are included: The Virgin Islands (USA & British), Anguilla, Barbuda, Dominica, St.… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G30] 2003. xx, 322 pp.
Creole Formation as Language Contact: The case of the Suriname Creoles
Bettina Migge
The research on the formation of (radical) creoles has seen an unprecedented intensification and diversification in the last 20 years. This book discusses, illustrates, and evaluates current research on creole formation based on an in-depth investigation of the processes and mechanisms that… read more[Creole Language Library, 25] 2003. xii, 151 pp.
The Making of a Mixed Language: The case of Ma’a/Mbugu
Maarten Mous
The Mbugu (or Ma'á) language (Tanzania) is one of the few genuine mixed languages, reputedly combining Bantu grammar with Cushitic vocabulary. In fact the people speak two languages: one mixed and one closely related to the Bantu language Pare. This book is the first comprehensive description of… read more[Creole Language Library, 26] 2003. xx, 322 pp.
Tok Pisin Texts: From the beginning to the present
Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas E. Dutton and Suzanne Romaine
Tok Pisin is one of the most important languages of Melanesia and is used in a wide range of public and private functions in Papua New Guinea. The language has featured prominently in Pidgin and Creole linguistics and has featured in a number of debates in theoretical linguistics. With their… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T9] 2003. x, 284 pp.
Creole Discourse: Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles
Susanne Mühleisen
Creole languages are characteristically associated with a negative image. How has this prestige been formed? And is it as static as the diglossic situation in many anglo-creolophone societies seems to suggest? This volume examines socio-historical and epistemological factors in the prestige… read more[Creole Language Library, 24] 2002. xiv, 331 pp.
The Syntax of Cape Verdean Creole: The Sotavento varieties
Marlyse Baptista
This book offers an in-depth treatment of a variety of morpho-syntactic issues in Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) both from a descriptive and theoretical perspective. The investigated topics include the determiner system, Tense, Mood, Aspect markers and pronominal paradigms. The study of TMA markers… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 54] 2002. xxii, 294 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Creolization and Contact
Edited by Norval Smith and Tonjes Veenstra
This volume contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the papers presented at “The Amsterdam Workshop on Language Contact and Creolization.” These studies apply the concept of relexification to creoles as well as other contact languages; highlight the relevance of strategies of… read more[Creole Language Library, 23] 2001. vi, 323 pp.
Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages
Edited by Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh and Edgar W. Schneider
Basic notions in the field of creole studies, including the category of “creole languages” itself, have been questioned in recent years: Can creoles be defined on structural or on purely sociohistorical grounds? Can creolization be understood as a graded process, possibly resulting in different… read more[Creole Language Library, 22] 2000. iv, 492 pp.
Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles
Edited by John H. McWhorter
This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly… read more[Creole Language Library, 21] 2000. vii, 503 pp.
Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato
Edited by John R. Rickford and Suzanne Romaine
This collection in honor of creolist Charlene Junko Sato (1951–1996) brings together contributions by leading specialists in pidgin-creole studies in three primary areas: Pidgin-Creole Genesis and Development; Attitudes and Education, and Creole Discourse and Literature. The varieties covered come… read more[Creole Language Library, 20] 1999. viii, 418 pp.
Ghanaian Pidgin English in its West African Context: A sociohistorical and structural analysis
Magnus Huber
This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPEs structure and sociolinguistics. Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G24] 1999. xviii, 322 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect
Peter L. Patrick
A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum. One major concern is to describe how linguistic variation patterns… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G17] 1999. xx, 329 pp.
Contact Languages: A wider perspective
Edited by Sarah G. Thomason
This book contributes to a more balanced view of the most dramatic results of language contact by presenting linguistic and historical sketches of lesser-known contact languages. The twelve case studies offer eloquent testimony against the still common view that all contact languages are pidgins… read more[Creole Language Library, 17] 1997. xiii, 506 pp.
Creole and Dialect Continua: Standard acquisition processes in Belize and China (PRC)
Geneviève Escure
Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research on standard language acquisition, little attention has been given to the mechanisms underlying second dialect acquisition. Using a combination of function-based grammar and sociolinguistic methodology to analyze topic marking strategies,… read more[Creole Language Library, 18] 1997. x, 307 pp.
The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics
Edited by Arthur K. Spears and Donald Winford
Destined to become a landmark work, this book is devoted principally to a reassessment of the content, categories, boundaries, and basic assumptions of pidgin and creole studies. It includes revised and elaborated papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in addition to… read more[Creole Language Library, 19] 1997. viii, 461 pp.
The Early Stages of Creolization
Edited by Jacques Arends
This volume brings together a number of studies on the early stages of creolization which are entirely based on historical data. The recent (re)discovery of early documents written in creole languages such as Negerhollands, Bajan, and Sranan, allows for a detailed and empirically founded… read more[Creole Language Library, 13] 1996. xvi, 297 pp.
The Genesis of a Language: The formation and development of Korlai Portuguese
J. Clancy Clements
Korlai Portuguese (KP), a Portuguese-based creole only recently discovered by linguists, originated around 1520 on the west coast of India. Initially isolated from its Hindu and Muslim neighbors by social and religious barriers, the small Korlai community lost virtually all Portuguese contact as… read more[Creole Language Library, 16] 1996. xviii, 281 pp.
The Acquisition of Mauritian Creole
Dany Adone
This work is based on an investigation of language acquisition process, particularly in regard to syntax, among Mauritian children learning to speak Mauritian Creole as their first language. As such, it is the first major study of the development of child grammar in a Creole context. Mauritian… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 9] 1994. xii, 167 pp.
Kriyol Syntax: The Portuguese-based Creole language of Guinea-Bissau
Alain Kihm
This book describes the Portuguese-based Creole which is widely spoken as a first language in Guinea-Bissau. The study focuses on one variety, 'central Kriyol', and its main aim is to present a complete description of the grammar of the language. The theoretical framework for the syntactic analysis… read more[Creole Language Library, 14] 1994. xii, 310 pp.
Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction
Edited by Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith
This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of previous linguistic knowledge. Part I: General Aspects and Part II: Theories of Genesis constitute the core for presentation and discussion… read more[Creole Language Library, 15] 1994. xv, 409 pp.
Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization
Edited by Francis Byrne and John Holm †
Selected papers from the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics. read more[Creole Language Library, 11] 1993. ix, 465 pp.
Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages: Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
Edited by Francis Byrne and Donald Winford
The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, but also, in a much broader sense, the many other phenomena and processes found in these languages which serve to highlight sentence-level… read more[Creole Language Library, 12] 1993. xvi, 329 pp.
Predication in Caribbean English Creoles
Donald Winford
This is the first major study of the conservative or basilectal English creoles of the Anglophone Caribbean since Bailey's (1966) and Bickerton's (1975) descriptions of Jamaican and Guyanese Creole respectively. The book offers a comprehensive, unified treatment of the core areas of CEC… read more[Creole Language Library, 10] 1993. viii, 419 pp.
Trinidad and Tobago
Lise Winer
This volume describes the English and English Creole of Trinidad and Tobago. Sources from the early 19th through late 20th centuries are gathered from a wide range of materials: novels, editorials, advertisements, cartoons, proverbs, newspaper articles, plays, lyrics of traditional songs and… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T6] 1993. xii, 368 pp.
Development and Structures of Creole Languages: Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton
Edited by Francis Byrne and Thom Huebner
This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career. Each author included in the volume is a noted scholar who has distinguished him/herself in some area of linguistics and has professionally or personally… read more[Creole Language Library, 9] 1991. x, 222 pp.
The Emergence of Black English: Text and commentary
Edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila
Debate over the evolution of Black English Vernacular (BEV) has permeated Afro-American studies, creole linguistics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics for a quarter of a century with little sign of a satisfactory resolution, primarily because evidence that bears directly on the earlier stages of… read more[Creole Language Library, 8] 1991. x, 352 pp.
Englishes: Studies in varieties of English 1984–1988
Manfred Görlach †
Problems of how to describe and explain the forms and functions of English outside Britain and the United States (and of varieties within the two countries) have become central for English linguistics over the past twenty years. The present collection combines 8 of Gorlach's major articles in the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G9] 1991. 211 pp.
History from Below: The “Vocabulary of Elisabethville” by André Yav: Text, Translations and Interpretive Essay
Edited by Johannes Fabian
Johannes Fabian with assistance from Kalundi Mango (Administrator, National Museum of Zaire) and with linguistic notes by Walter Schicho (University of Vienna). An extraordinary linguistic and sociopolitical document, this is a history of colonization written by the colonized, about the colonized,… read more[Creole Language Library, 7] 1990. vii, 236 pp.
Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia
Edited by John W.M. Verhaar, S.J.
The First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia was planned mainly for Tok Pisin, but no predetermined theme(s) had been proposed to the participants. Nevertheless, in this collection of papers several principal themes stand out.One is that of a revived interest in… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 20] 1990. xiv, 409 pp.
Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems
Edited by John Victor Singler
More than any other area of the grammar, tense-mood-aspect (TMA) has provided evidence to fuel the ongoing debates about creole genesis and about the relevance of pidgin and creole phenomena to language theory more generally. This volume advances the debate in two ways. First, it makes available in… read more[Creole Language Library, 6] 1990. xvi, 240 pp.
Sing Without Shame: Oral traditions in Indo-Portuguese Creole verse
Kenneth David Jackson
This study of literary themes, linguistic practice and cultural traditions analyzes the oral traditions of Indo-Portugese creole verse, as a synthesis from European, African and Asian sources. This musical, dramatic and textual syncretism defines tradition within the group and maintains the… read more[Creole Language Library, 5] 1990. xxiv, 257 pp.
The Speech of the Negros Congos in Panama
John M. Lipski
The negros congos of Panama's Caribbean coast are a unique cultural manifestation of Afro-Hispanic contact. During Carnival season each year, this group reenacts dramatic events which affected black slaves in colonial Panama, performs dances and pantomimes, and enforces a set of ritual laws' and… read more[Creole Language Library, 4] 1989. vii, 159 pp.
Grammatical Relations in a Radical Creole: Verb Complementation in Saramaccan
Francis Byrne
With English and Portuguese as parent languages; the significant lexical retention of African languages; and the relative isolation of its speakers, Saramaccan has always stood out among Creole languages. Yet despite its obvious interest Saramaccan received little in the way of scholarly study.… read more[Creole Language Library, 3] 1987. xiv, 293 pp.
The Syntax of Serial Verbs: An investigation into serialisation in Sranan and other languages
Mark Sebba
This monograph is about the chains of verbs commonly found in Creole Languages, West African languages, in particular the Kwa sub-group of Niger-Congo, Chinese and certain other languages and have acquired the name of 'serial verbs' in the literature. As a case study, the serial constructions of… read more[Creole Language Library, 2] 1987. xv, 226 pp.
Focus on the Caribbean
Edited by Manfred Görlach † and John Holm †
This collection represents an important contribution not only to creole linguistics but also to Caribbean studies and English dialectology. It contains eleven essays on the special development and present-day functions of English and Creole in the Caribbean, ranging from Central America to Guyana.… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G8] 1986. viii, 209 pp.
Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985
Edited by Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith
Two of the most prominent hypotheses about why the structures of the Creole languages of the Atlantic and the Pacific differ are the universalist and he substrate hypotheses. The universalist hypothesis claims, essentially, that the particular grammatical properties of Creole languages directly… read more[Creole Language Library, 1] 1986. vii, 311 pp.
Pidginization and Creolization: The Case of Arabic
Kees Versteegh
This book is concerned with the notions of “pidginization” and “creolization” and the role of these processes of language learning in the history of the Arabic language. It is argued that when a new type of Arabic emerged after the Islamic conquests in the 7th century AD, the language went through… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 33] 1984. xiii, 194 pp.
Central American English
Edited by John Holm †
This volume is about the Anglophone creoles to be found on the Caribbean coast of Central America (Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama), and its offshore islands (Providencia, San Andrés and the Caymans) . The study of these Anglophone varieties is comparatively recent and based on… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T2] 1983. vi, 184 pp.
Cameroon
Loreto Todd
This volume on the Cameroonian English contains two main sections. The first section is devoted to the history of language contact in Cameroon (contact with Islam and contact with Europeans); the development of English in Cameroon; the teaching of English in Cameroon in various stages of its… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, T1] 1982. 180 pp., 1 map.
Issues in English Creoles: Papers from the 1975 Hawaii Conference
Edited by Richard R. Day
The purpose of this volume is to make more accessible, for the use of researchers and students in the field of pidgins and creoles, presentations of the third International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Honolulu, 1975, dealing with English-based creoles. Aside from their documentary value,… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G2] 1980. xi, 185 pp.
Readings in Creole Studies
Edited by Ian F. Hancock
Creole studies embrace a wide range is disciplines: history, ethnography, geography, sociology, etc. The phenomenon of creolization has come to be recognized as widespread; creolization presupposes contact, and that is a human universal. The present anthology discusses social, historical and… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 2] 1979. xiv, 352 pp.