Table of contents
Prefacevii
Contentsix
Introduction: Innovation and Excellence within a Scholary Tradition1
1. Identifying Creoles
American Indian English: A Phylogenetic Dilemma29
2. Language Variation
Style, Status, Change: Three Sociolinguistic Axioms43
Using the Future o Explain the Past61
Decreolization or Dialect Contact in Haiti?75
3. Creole Processes
From Botany to Creolistics: The Contribution of the Lexicon on the Flora to the Debate on Indian Ocean creole Genesis91
Ndjuka Organisation of Experience: African or Universal?101
A Reexamination of Bickerton’s Phylogenesis Hypothesis111
4. Creole Syntax and Semantics
Pidgins, Creoles, Typology, and Markedness123
The Binding Theory and Creolization: Evidence from 18th Century Negerhollands Reflexives145
On the Copula in Mauritian Creole, Past and Present159
5. Serial Verbs
Serialization in Creole Oral Discourse179
The Definition of Serial Verbs193
Approaches to ‘Missing” Internal (and External) Arguments in Serial Structure: Some Presumed Difficulties207
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