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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
[Creole Language Library 53] 2017
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1.The sociohistorical matrix of language contact
Population factors, multilingualism and the emergence of grammar
The African diaspora in Latin America: Linguistic contact and consequences
The sociohistorical matrix of creolization and the role children played in this process
Creole as necessity? Creole as choice? Evidence from Afrikaans historical sociolinguistics
Bahamian Creole English: Yesterday, today and tomorrow
Linguistic commonality in English of the African diaspora: Evidence from lesser-known varieties of English
Historical separations: Race, class and language in Barbados
Part 2.Sources of grammar and processes of language contact
Some observations on the sources of AAVE structure: Re-examining the creole connection
Unity in diversity: The homogeneity of the substrate and the grammar of space in the African and Caribbean English-lexifier creoles
Krio as the Western Maroon Creole Language of Jamaica, and the /na/ isogloss
Number marking in Jamaican Patwa
Variationist creolistics, with a phonological focus
Pidginisation versus second language acquisition: Insights from basilang and mesolang varieties of Zulu as a second language
Crosslinguistic effects in adjectivization strategies in Suriname, Ghana and Togo
Author index 363
Language index 365
Subject index 367


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