Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
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The Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JPCL) aims to provide a forum for the scholarly study of pidgins, creoles, and other contact language varieties, from multi-disciplinary perspectives. The journal places special emphasis on current research devoted to empirical description, theoretical issues, and the broader implications of the study of contact languages for, among others, theories of language development, use, change and acquisition. The editors also encourage contributions on pragmatics and language ideologies, and that explore the application of linguistic research to language planning, education, and social reform, as well as studies that examine the role of contact languages in the social life and culture, including the literature and other media, of their communities.
JPCL publishes its articles Online First.
The journal has a companion series of books, the Contact Language Library , formerly Creole Language Library.
Latest articles
21 November 2024
Is variation a sign of decreolization? Exploring decreolization through diachronic analysis of variation in ‘doz’ and singular pronouns in Guyanese
Creolese
Emma Kainz
18 November 2024
On the orthography of Philippine Creole Spanish in Zamboanga
Gefilloyd L. De Castro
28 October 2024
Evidence from bare verbs for the future versus non-future split in Creoles
Paula Prescod | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 435–462
24 October 2024
Umberto Ansaldo & Miriam Meyerhoff (Eds.). 2021. The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Reviewed by Stephanie Hackert | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 472–478
10 October 2024
Felicity Meakins & Carmel O’Shannessy (Editors). 2016. Loss and Renewal: Australian languages since Colonisation
Reviewed by Stéphane Goyette | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 468–471
3 September 2024
The rhotics of the Salvador, Bahia variety of Brazilian Portuguese
Trey Jagiella & J. Clancy Clements
Speaking with attitude: Language attitudes in comic literature in Macanese Creole
João Pedro Oliveira
27 August 2024
Claire Bowern. 2023. The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages
Reviewed by William A. Foley | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 463–467
5 July 2024
Lingua francas as evidence of standard language ideology in historical perspective
Josh Brown
28 June 2024
Selectional factors in pronominal system formation: Evidence from Fiji’s two pidgins
Brian Hayden
15 April 2024
Toward a typology of Australian contact languages
Carmel O’Shannessy, Denise Angelo & Jane Simpson | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 1–33
5 April 2024
Yolanda Rivera-Castillo. 2022. A description of Papiamentu: a Creole Language of the Caribbean Area
Reviewed by Anthony P. Grant | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 302–306
Irina Popova & Tokio Takata. 2017. Slovari Kyakhtinskogo Pidzhina
Reviewed by Anthony P. Grant | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 307–311
Enoch Oladé Aboh & Cécil B. Vigouroux (eds.). 2021. Variation rolls the dice. A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene
Reviewed by Yaron Matras | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 293–301
Nala H. Lee. 2022. A grammar of Baba Malay
Reviewed by Peter Slomanson | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 286–292
8 March 2024
Indigenous Language Ecologies framework: A tool for inserting Indigenous contact languages and their speakers into policy in Australia
Denise Angelo | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 34–70
27 February 2024
Verb marking and classification of adjectival predicates in creoles
Paula Prescod | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 250–285
22 February 2024
Noun phrases in Kwéyòl Donmnik
Joy P. G. Peltier
12 February 2024
Reported language choice and usage of teenage Mauritians: A sociolinguistic perspective
Anu Bissoonauth & Gaetano Rando
9 February 2024
Source language influences in the Australian mixed language, Light Warlpiri
Carmel O’Shannessy | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 125–148
6 February 2024
After 1788
: Contact varieties in the first sixty years of Australia’s colonisation
Jane Simpson | JPCL 39:1 (2024) p. 71
19 January 2024
Remarks on the syntax of bare nouns in Papiamentu
Luis López, Rodi Laanen, Charlotte Pouw & M. Carmen Parafita Couto
18 January 2024
Pacific transformations of the ‘Country of Babel’: The legacy of a colonial language myth in nationalist discourses on Hawai‘i Creole and Tok Pisin
Christoph Neuenschwander
11 January 2024
‘It runs in the family’: Reconstructing the kinship terminology of Tugu Creole Portuguese
Raan-Hann Tan & Silvio Moreira De Sousa
19 December 2023
The early Baba Malay continuum
Nala H. Lee | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 339–364
14 December 2023
Event plurality and the verbal suffix ‑(a)bad in Australian Kriol
Connor Brown & Maïa Ponsonnet | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 187–218
11 December 2023
Alyawarr English: A new contact language of Central Australia
Sally Dixon | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 149–186
1 December 2023
Predicting the development of Papiamento and Dutch word decoding efficiency in the Dutch Caribbean
Melissa van der Elst-Koeiman, Eliane Segers, Ronald Severing & Ludo Verhoeven
20 November 2023
Recognising Yarrie Lingo, the creole language of Yarrabah community in far north-eastern Queensland
Australia
Bernadine Yeatman & Denise Angelo | JPCL 39:1 (2024) pp. 219–249
16 October 2023
Adjective phrase fronting in the Malacca Creole Portuguese noun phrase: A vestige of South Asian substrate?
Alan N Baxter
3 October 2023
On the etymology and distribution of verb forms in Arabic-based pidgins: A usage-based approach
Imed Louhichi
2 October 2023
What can the stories of a frog tell us about motion event description in Gulf Pidgin Arabic?
Imed Louhichi | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 313–338
17 August 2023
Empiricism against imperialism: Science, dogma and the neocolonial heritage of creole studies. Reflections on
Peter Bakker
A multidimensional perspective on the acquisition of subject-verb dependencies by Haitian-Creole speaking children: Insights from comprehension and production
Isabelle Barrière, Blandine Joseph, Katsiaryna Aharodnik, Sarah Kresh, Guetjens Prince Fleurio, Géraldine Legendre & Thierry Nazzi
14 August 2023
Reciprocal constructions: Multilingual contact favors borrowing of transparent structures
Kofi Yakpo | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 365–393
13 July 2023
Skepi Creole Dutch: The Rodschied Papers
Bart Jacobs & Mikael Parkvall | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 394–408
11 July 2023
Orthography, ideology and the codification of Mauritian Creole: The implications of decreasing linguistic Abstand
Tejshree Auckle | JPCL 39:2 (2024) pp. 409–434
Language use, language attitudes, and identity in Aruba: Is Aruban Papiamento under threat?
Ellen-Petra Kester & Samantha Buijink | JPCL 38:2 (2023) pp. 389–430
30 June 2023
The third space in the fourth column: Revisiting the role of agency in the formation of Creoles
Felicity Meakins | JPCL 38:2 (2023) pp. 431–445
21 June 2023
A new view on ‘Yilan Creole’
Gan-ling Tan | JPCL 38:2 (2023) pp. 320–388
29 May 2023
A corpus-driven description of o in Naijá (Nigerian Pidgin)
Stefano Manfredi & Slavomír Čéplö | JPCL 38:2 (2023) pp. 290–319
5 May 2023
Uyghur speakers’ acquisition of Mandarin tones
Zhaojin Du & Baoya Chen | JPCL 38:1 (2023) pp. 62–82
Pún and tio̍h in Penang
Hokkien
Jia Wen Hing | JPCL 38:1 (2023) pp. 151–169
Social status, contact history and the implosives in the Chinese
dialects of Hainan
Chuntao Liu | JPCL 38:1 (2023) pp. 135–150
What have we missed? Theorising about Creoles in the absence of Melanesia and Australia
Felicity Meakins | JPCL 38:1 (2023) pp. 170–187
Nominalization in Wutun
Erika Sandman | JPCL 38:1 (2023) pp. 41–61
Converbs of Sinitic varieties in Qīnghǎi‑Gānsù linguistic
area
Mingyuan Shao & Xuna Lin | JPCL 38:1 (2023) pp. 14–40
Aspects of early Chinese global lexical copies surviving in Modern
Uyghur
Abdurishid Yakup | JPCL 38:1 (2023) p. 83
On the formation of the Ei language
Xiaoyu Zeng | JPCL 38:1 (2023) pp. 118–134
Natalie Operstein. 2021. The Lingua Franca: Contact-Induced Language Change in the Mediterranean
Reviewed by Peter Bakker | JPCL 38:1 (2023) pp. 202–206
George Saad. 2020. Variation and change in Abui: The impact of Alor Malay on an indigenous language of Indonesia
Reviewed by John McWhorter | JPCL 38:1 (2023) pp. 198–201
Raul Leal Gaião. 2019. Dicionário do Crioulo de Macau: Escrita de Adé em Patuá
Reviewed by João Oliveira | JPCL 38:1 (2023) pp. 188–192
Stephen Fafulas (ed.). 2020. Amazonian Spanish: Language contact and evolution
Reviewed by Danae Perez | JPCL 38:1 (2023) pp. 193–197
Languages and language contact in China
Zhiming Bao, Ruiqing Shen & Kunmei Han | JPCL 38:1 (2023) pp. 1–13
1 May 2023
Morphopragmatic analysis of reduplication in Nigerian Pidgin (Naija)
Nancy Chiagolum Odiegwu & Jesús Romero-Trillo | JPCL 38:2 (2023) pp. 263–289
24 April 2023
Noun phrases in mixed Martinican Creole and French: Evidence for an Underspecified Language Model
Pascal Vaillant | JPCL 38:2 (2023) pp. 207–262
3 November 2022
‘My brother from another mother’: Mapping the kinship terminology of Malacca Creole Portuguese
Silvio Moreira De Sousa & Raan-Hann Tan | JPCL 37:2 (2022) pp. 247–290
On the influence of Kreyòl swa
: Evidence from the nasalization of the Haitian Creole determiner /la/ in non-nasal environments
David Tezil | JPCL 37:2 (2022) pp. 291–320
Chabacano and Luso-Asian creoles: Coincidences or connections?
Eduardo Tobar Delgado | JPCL 37:2 (2022) pp. 321–356
Phonetic variation in Standard English spoken by Trinidadian professionals
Michael Westphal, Ka Man Lau, Johanna Hartmann & Dagmar Deuber | JPCL 37:2 (2022) pp. 357–394
The word wide web
: A mycelial turn in the conceptualisation and modelling of language evolution
Felicity Meakins | JPCL 37:2 (2022) pp. 395–415
Maria Mazzoli & Eeva Sippola (eds.). 2021. New Perspectives on Mixed Languages: From Core to Fringe
Reviewed by Michael T. Putnam | JPCL 37:2 (2022) pp. 416–421
The lexicon and creole formation: A reply to Jacobs & Parkvall (2020)
Mauro Fernández & Eeva M. Sippola | JPCL 37:2 (2022) pp. 219–239
Occam’s Razor and the origins of Chabacano: A reply to Fernández and Sippola
Bart Jacobs & Mikael Parkvall | JPCL 37:2 (2022) pp. 240–246
23 March 2022
The vitality of Angolar: A study of attitudes on São Tomé Island
Marie-Eve Bouchard | JPCL 37:1 (2022) pp. 160–188
Context matters: Grenadian students’ attitudes toward newscasters’ and teachers’ accents
Eva Canan Hänsel, Michael Westphal, Philipp Meer & Dagmar Deuber | JPCL 37:1 (2022) pp. 16–52
Empiricism or imperialism: The science of Creole Exceptionalism
Felicity Meakins | JPCL 37:1 (2022) pp. 189–203
Zamboanga Chavacano: From español de cocina to un poquito español. A postcolonial inquiry into creole language
preservation
Jillian Loise Melchor & Miguel Blázquez-Carretero | JPCL 37:1 (2022) p. 72
Marking statements of fact in early pidgins
Kees Versteegh | JPCL 37:1 (2022) pp. 53–71
The syntax of directional Serial Verb Constructions in French-based creoles
Anne Zribi-Hertz & Loïc Jean-Louis | JPCL 37:1 (2022) pp. 114–159
Tjerk Hagemeijer, Philippe Maurer-Cecchini & Armando Zamora Segorbe. 2020. A Grammar of Fa d’Ambô
Reviewed by Alain Kihm | JPCL 37:1 (2022) pp. 208–217
Maïa Ponsonnet. 2020. Difference and Repetition in Language Shift to a Creole. The Expression of Emotions
Reviewed by Karin Speedy | JPCL 37:1 (2022) pp. 204–207
Pieter Cornelis Muysken (1950–2021)
Peter Bakker | JPCL 37:1 (2022) pp. 1–9
Annegret Bollée (1937–2021)
Susanne Maria Michaelis | JPCL 37:1 (2022) pp. 10–15
14 January 2022
The discourse marker ale in Bislama oral narratives
Angeliki Alvanoudi & Valérie Guérin | JPCL 36:2 (2021) pp. 264–297
Convergence in the Malabar: The case of Indo-Portuguese
Hugo C. Cardoso | JPCL 36:2 (2021) pp. 298–335
‘Broken English’, ‘dialect’ or ‘Bahamianese’? Language attitudes and identity in The Bahamas
Alexander Laube & Janina Rothmund | JPCL 36:2 (2021) pp. 362–394
Language styles, styling and language change in Creole communities
Bettina Migge | JPCL 36:2 (2021) pp. 395–422
‘Fact type’ complementizer in Guadeloupean Creole
Laura Tramutoli | JPCL 36:2 (2021) pp. 336–361
The influence of socio-economic status, age, gender, and level of literacy on language attitudes: The case of Haitian Gonâviens
Gerdine M. Ulysse & Khaled Al Masaeed | JPCL 36:2 (2021) pp. 227–263
William Jennings & Stefan Pfänder. 2018. Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language. Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole
Reviewed by Peter Bakker | JPCL 36:2 (2021) pp. 428–433
Sandro Sessarego. 2019. Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular: Variation and Change in the Colombian Chocó
Reviewed by Isabel Deibel | JPCL 36:2 (2021) pp. 434–437
Anthony Grant (ed.). 2019. The Oxford handbook of language contact
Reviewed by George Lang | JPCL 36:2 (2021) pp. 423–427
Joanna Nolan. 2020. The Elusive Case of Lingua Franca
Reviewed by Mikael Parkvall | JPCL 36:2 (2021) pp. 438–440
Trying to resolve the question: Did Bounty mutineer, Edward Young, have a singular influence on Pitcairn Island creole
Richard Kleiner | JPCL 36:2 (2021) pp. 221–226
25 March 2021
Synchronic variation in Sri Lanka Portuguese personal pronouns
Hugo C. Cardoso & Patrícia Costa | JPCL 36:1 (2021) p. 77
‘Ou ni right-la pou remain silans’: The case for a standard Kwéyòl translation of the pre-trial right to silence
R. Sandra Evans | JPCL 36:1 (2021) pp. 175–200
The development of weak normativity in Solomon Islands Pijin
Christine Jourdan & Johanne Angeli | JPCL 36:1 (2021) pp. 46–76
Variable subject pronoun expression in Cabo-Verdean Creole: Some language-internal constraints
Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli | JPCL 36:1 (2021) pp. 109–174
Creole prestige beyond modernism and methodological nationalism: Multiplex patterns, simultaneity and non-closure in the sociolinguistic economy of a Belizean village
Britta Schneider | JPCL 36:1 (2021) pp. 12–45
Introduction
Isabelle Léglise, Bettina Migge & Nicolas Quint | JPCL 36:1 (2021) pp. 1–11
Linguistic research with language users: Opportunities and challenges
Bettina Migge | JPCL 36:1 (2021) pp. 201–219
1 October 2020
Suppletion in Tagdal: A study of some verb root interactions between Songhay and Tuareg-Berber vocabulary in a Northern Songhay language
Carlos M. Benítez-Torres | JPCL 35:2 (2020) pp. 332–359
Transparency and language contact: The case of Haitian Creole, French, and Fongbe
Luisa Seguin | JPCL 35:2 (2020) pp. 218–252
Vowel system or vowel systems? Variation in the monophthongs of Philippine Hybrid Hokkien in Manila
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales & Rebecca Lurie Starr | JPCL 35:2 (2020) pp. 253–292
Changes in the functions of already in Singapore English: A grammaticalization approach
Debra Ziegeler | JPCL 35:2 (2020) pp. 293–331
John R. Rickford. 2019. Variation, versatility and change in sociolinguistics and creole studies
Reviewed by Bettina Migge | JPCL 35:2 (2020) pp. 405–409
William J. Samarin: 7 February, 1926 – 16 January, 2020
J. Clancy Clements & Salikoko Mufwene | JPCL 35:2 (2020) pp. 207–212
Robert Chaudenson, 1937–2020
Salikoko S. Mufwene & Georges Daniel Véronique | JPCL 35:2 (2020) pp. 213–217
Skepi Dutch Creole: The Youd Papers
Bart Jacobs & Mikael Parkvall | JPCL 35:2 (2020) pp. 360–380
Mediating Creoles: Language practices on a YouTube show
Bettina Migge | JPCL 35:2 (2020) pp. 381–404
13 May 2020
Pidginization in Abha, Saudi Arabia: Pathways to multifunctionality
Munira Al-Azraqi | JPCL 35:1 (2020) pp. 37–61
A description of bare noun phrases in Reunion Creole
Ulrike Albers | JPCL 35:1 (2020) pp. 1–36
Two Englishes diverged in the Philippines? A substratist account of Manila Chinese English
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales & Mie Hiramoto | JPCL 35:1 (2020) pp. 125–159
Chavacano (Philippine Creole Spanish): Are the varieties related?
Bart Jacobs & Mikael Parkvall | JPCL 35:1 (2020) p. 88
Broadening creole studies: From grammar towards discourse
Bettina Migge | JPCL 35:1 (2020) pp. 160–177
Adopt and adapt written Kreol: The development of a register within the Sunni Muslim community in Mauritius
A Mooznah Auleear Owodally | JPCL 35:1 (2020) pp. 62–87
Viviane Déprez & Fabiola Henri. 2018. Negation and negative concord: The view from creoles
Reviewed by Tjerk Hagemeijer | JPCL 35:1 (2020) pp. 190–195
Carrie Gillon & Nicole Rosen. 2018. Nominal contact in Michif
Reviewed by George Lang | JPCL 35:1 (2020) pp. 186–189
Armin Schwegler, Bryan Kirschen & Graciela Maglia (eds.). 2017. Orality, identity, and resistance in Palenque (Colombia): An interdisciplinary approach
Reviewed by John M. Lipski | JPCL 35:1 (2020) pp. 182–185
Stefano Manfredi. 2017. Árabi Júba: Un pidgin-créole du Soudan du Sud
Reviewed by Shuichiro Nakao | JPCL 35:1 (2020) pp. 178–181
Laura Álvarez López, Perpétua Gonçalves & Juanito Ornelas de Avelar. 2018. The Portuguese language continuum in Africa and Brazil
Reviewed by José María Santos Rovira | JPCL 35:1 (2020) pp. 201–205
Annegret Bollée, Dominique Fattier & Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh. 2018. Dictionnaire étymologique des créoles français d’Amérique. Première Partie: Mots d’origine française, Volume 3
Reviewed by Florence Villoing | JPCL 35:1 (2020) pp. 196–200
25 November 2019
Speech communities, language varieties, and typology: Acquisitional history and pidgin and creole typology
J. Clancy Clements | JPCL 34:2 (2019) pp. 377–390
Plurality and definiteness in Mauritian and Haitian creoles
Viviane Déprez | JPCL 34:2 (2019) pp. 287–345
The perfect in English-lexifier pidgins and creoles: A comparative study
Stephanie Hackert | JPCL 34:2 (2019) pp. 195–242
The formation of the Kallawaya language
Katja Hannß | JPCL 34:2 (2019) pp. 243–286
The role of parallel constructions in imposition: A synchronic study of already in Colloquial Singapore English
Ming Chew Teo | JPCL 34:2 (2019) pp. 346–376
Peter Stein. 2017. Kreolisch und Französisch [Creole and French]
Reviewed by Peter Bakker | JPCL 34:2 (2019) pp. 391–394
Emanuel J. Drechsel. 2014. Language contact in the early colonial Pacific. Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English
Reviewed by Peter Bakker | JPCL 34:2 (2019) pp. 395–399
In memory of Derek Bickerton (1926–2018)
Emanuel J. Drechsel | JPCL 34:2 (2019) pp. 185–194
22 March 2019
Speech communities, language varieties, and typology: Acquisition and the building of pronominal systems
J. Clancy Clements | JPCL 34:1 (2019) pp. 148–161
Iberian linguistic elements among the black population in New Netherland (1614–1664)
Jeroen Dewulf | JPCL 34:1 (2019) pp. 49–82
Caught in the middle: Songhay bidirectional case-marker *nà and its likely Mande origin
Jeffrey Heath | JPCL 34:1 (2019) pp. 126–146
Trinidadian secondary school students’ attitudes toward accents of Standard English
Philipp Meer, Michael Westphal, Eva Canan Hänsel & Dagmar Deuber | JPCL 34:1 (2019) p. 83
Non-French lexicon in Guianese French Creole: A sociohistorical and linguistic study on the African contribution
Evelyn Wiesinger | JPCL 34:1 (2019) pp. 3–48
Cecilia Cutler, Zvjezdana Vrzić & Philipp Angermeyer. 2017. Language contact in Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler
Reviewed by George L. Huttar | JPCL 34:1 (2019) pp. 178–183
Peter Bakker & Yaron Matras. 2013. Contact languages: A comprehensive guide
Reviewed by John McWhorter | JPCL 34:1 (2019) pp. 171–177
Jacques Arends. 2017. Language and Slavery: A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles
Reviewed by Bettina Migge | JPCL 34:1 (2019) pp. 166–170
John McWhorter & Jeff Good. 2012. A grammar of Saramaccan creole
Reviewed by Bettina Migge | JPCL 34:1 (2019) pp. 162–165
Belong: Errata
Ian Hancock | JPCL 34:1 (2019) p. 147
Obituary for Charles Gilman, 5 September 1941 – 3 October 2018
JPCL 34:1 (2019) pp. 1–2
19 October 2018
Malacca Creole Portuguese in the 19th century: Evidence of a wider lectal range?
Alan N. Baxter | JPCL 33:2 (2018) pp. 247–279
Speech communities, language varieties, and typology: What does acquisition have to do with it?
J. Clancy Clements | JPCL 33:2 (2018) pp. 411–432
The impact of work environment on verbs in Gulf Pidgin Arabic
Unn Gyda Næss | JPCL 33:2 (2018) pp. 362–385
Lingua Franca between pidginization and koineization
Natalie Operstein | JPCL 33:2 (2018) pp. 307–361
Overstanding Idren: Special features of Rasta Talk morphology
Benjamin Slade | JPCL 33:2 (2018) pp. 280–306
The adaptation of French liquids in Haitian: A test of the perceptual hypothesis
Benjamin Storme | JPCL 33:2 (2018) pp. 386–410
Armin Schwegler, John McWhorter & Liane Ströbel. 2016. The Iberian Challenge: Creole languages beyond the plantation setting
Reviewed by J. Clancy Clements | JPCL 33:2 (2018) pp. 447–452
Lisa Lim & Umberto Ansaldo. 2016. Languages in contact
Reviewed by Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway | JPCL 33:2 (2018) pp. 433–437
André Thibault. 2015. Du français aux créoles: phonétique, lexicologie et dialectologie antillaises
Reviewed by Thomas A. Klingler | JPCL 33:2 (2018) pp. 442–446
Andrea Moll. 2015. Jamaican Creole Goes Web: Sociolinguistic styling and authenticity in a digital ‘Yaad’
Reviewed by Bettina Migge | JPCL 33:2 (2018) pp. 438–441
Alla Klimenkowa. 2017. Sprachkontakt und lexikalische Innovation in der karibischen Kontaktzone: Die Beispiele bozal, cimarrón und
criollo
Reviewed by Natalie Operstein | JPCL 33:2 (2018) pp. 453–456
Philip Baker (1940–2017)
Peter Bakker | JPCL 33:2 (2018) pp. 231–239
Jean Bernabe (1942–2017): A tribute to Jean Bernabé, who was born on the 31st of July 1942 in Lorrain, Martinique, and died on the 12th of April
2017 in Fort-de-France
Peter Stein, Térèz Léotin, Rémi Léotin & Juliette Sainton | JPCL 33:2 (2018) pp. 240–242
Jean Bernabé (1942–2017) : Hommage à Jean Bernabé, né le 31 juillet 1942 à Lorrain en Martinique, décédé le 12 avril 2017 à
Fort-de-France
Peter Stein, Térèz Léotin, Rémi Léotin & Juliette Sainton | JPCL 33:2 (2018) pp. 243–246
7 May 2018
Speech communities, language varieties, and typology
J. Clancy Clements | JPCL 33:1 (2018) pp. 174–191
Singaporean internet chit chat compared to informal spoken language
: Linguistic variation and indexicality in a language contact situation
Dagmar Deuber, Jakob R. E. Leimgruber & Andrea Sand | JPCL 33:1 (2018) pp. 48–91
Baba Malay: Diverging trends in two ecologies
Nala H. Lee | JPCL 33:1 (2018) pp. 136–173
Folk perception of variation in Cavite Chabacano
Marivic Lesho | JPCL 33:1 (2018) pp. 1–47
Lexical semantics in language shift: Comparing emotion lexica in Dalabon and Barunga Kriol (northern Australia)
Maïa Ponsonnet | JPCL 33:1 (2018) p. 92
Nicolas Quint. 2015. Let’s speak Capeverdean. Language and culture
Reviewed by Nélia Alexandre | JPCL 33:1 (2018) pp. 221–225
Rachel Hendery. 2015. One man is an island: the speech community William Marsters begat on Palmerston Island
Reviewed by David Britain | JPCL 33:1 (2018) pp. 226–230
Sandro Sessarego. 2015. Afro-Peruvian Spanish: Spanish slavery and the legacy of Spanish Creoles
Reviewed by Carol A. Klee | JPCL 33:1 (2018) pp. 216–220
Albert Valdman. 2015. Haitian Creole: Structure, variation, status, origin
Reviewed by George Lang | JPCL 33:1 (2018) pp. 203–205
Graciela Maglia & Yves Moñino. 2015. “Kondalo pa bibí mejó” – Contarlo para vivir mejor. Oratura y oralitura de San Basilio de Palenque (Colombia)
Reviewed by John M. Lipski | JPCL 33:1 (2018) pp. 206–211
Claire Lefebvre. 2015. Functional categories in three Atlantic creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu
Reviewed by John H. McWhorter | JPCL 33:1 (2018) pp. 212–215
Belong
Ian Hancock | JPCL 33:1 (2018) pp. 192–196
Enhancing dialogue in the field: Some remarks on the status of the Spanish creole debate
Sandro Sessarego | JPCL 33:1 (2018) pp. 197–202
4 December 2017
On the origin of some Northern Songhay mixed languages
Carlos M. Benítez-Torres & Anthony P. Grant | JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 263–303
A new window into the history of Chabacano: Two unknown mid-19th century texts
Mauro Fernández & Eeva Sippola | JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 304–338
Documenting Unserdeutsch: Reversing colonial amnesia
Péter Maitz & Craig Alan Volker | JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 365–397
Demonstratives and the emergence of a definite article in Juba Arabic and Ki-Nubi
Stefano Manfredi | JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 205–232
Putting Matawai on the Surinamese linguistic map
Bettina Migge | JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 233–262
Language shift, endangerment and prestige: Kriol and Garifuna in Hopkins, Belize
Maya Ravindranath Abtahian | JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 339–364
Perry Gilmore. 2016. Kisisi (Our language). The story of Colin and Sadiki
Reviewed by Peter Bakker | JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 462–465
Umberto Ansaldo (Ed.). 2012. Pidgins and creoles in Asia
Reviewed by J. Clancy Clements | JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 458–461
Peter Mühlhäusler & Joshua Nash. 2012. Norfolk Island, history, people, environment, language
Reviewed by Ian Hancock | JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 433–437
Viveka Velupillai. 2015. Pidgins, creoles & mixed languages: An introduction
Reviewed by George Lang | JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 442–445
Enoch O. Aboh, Smith Norval & Anne Zribi-Hertz (Eds.). 2012. The morphosyntax of reiteration in creole and non-creole languages
Reviewed by Ana R. Luís | JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 438–441
Sandro Sessarego. 2014. The Afro-Bolivian determiner phrase. A microparametric approach
Reviewed by Danae M. Perez | JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 449–453
Philipp Krämer (Ed.). 2014. Ausgewählte Arbeiten der Kreolistik des 19. Jahrhunderts/ Selected works from 19th century creolistics. Emilio Teza, Thomas Russell, Erik Pontoppidan, Adolpho Coelho
Reviewed by Mario Portilla | JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 454–457
Paula Prescod (Ed.). 2014. Language issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Reviewed by Jeffrey P. Williams | JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 446–448
Competing I-grammars in creole genesis: A synchronic and diachronic view
Marlyse Baptista | JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 398–415
Mervyn Coleridge Alleyne, 1933–2016
JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 203–204
The influence of Portuguese on Amazonian French Creole lexicon: Some preliminary observations
Jo-Anne S. Ferreira | JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 423–432
On the comparative (ad)verbial marker pass
Ian Hancock | JPCL 32:2 (2017) pp. 416–422
23 June 2017
Engsh, a Kenyan middle class youth language parallel to Sheng
Sandra Nekesa Barasa & Maarten Mous | JPCL 32:1 (2017) pp. 48–74
The legal hypothesis of creole genesis: Presence/absence of legal personality, a new element to the Spanish creole debate
Sandro Sessarego | JPCL 32:1 (2017) pp. 1–47
Social mobility as a factor in restructuring: Black Cape Dutch in perspective
Gerald Stell | JPCL 32:1 (2017) pp. 104–137
Afro-Brazilian Cupópia: Lexical and morphosyntactic features of a lexically driven in-group code
Laura Álvarez López & Anna Jon-and | JPCL 32:1 (2017) p. 75
Competition and selection in creole genesis: How ‘minimalist’ languages yield maximal output
Marlyse Baptista | JPCL 32:1 (2017) pp. 138–158
Raymond Hickey. 2014. A dictionary of varieties of English
Reviewed by Michael Aceto | JPCL 32:1 (2017) pp. 194–201
Joshua Nash. 2013. Insular toponymies. Place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island
Reviewed by Philip A. Clarke | JPCL 32:1 (2017) pp. 170–173
Paula Morgan & Valerie Youssef (eds). 2013. Reassembling the fragments: Voice and identity in Caribbean discourse
Reviewed by Nicholas G. Faraclas | JPCL 32:1 (2017) pp. 182–185
Hanne-Ruth Thompson & Momoh Taziff Koroma (eds). 2014. Krio Dictionary and Phrasebook, Krio-English/English-Krio: A language of Sierra Leone & Sheikh Umarr Kamarah & Marjorie Jones (eds). 2013. Beg Sɔl Nɔba Kuk Sup: An Anthology of Krio Poetry
Reviewed by Ian Hancock | JPCL 32:1 (2017) pp. 186–193
Isabelle Buchstaller, Anders Holmberg & Mohammad Almoaily (eds). 2014. Pidgins and creoles beyond Africa-Europe encounters
Reviewed by Stefano Manfredi | JPCL 32:1 (2017) pp. 174–178
Tomasz Kamusella. 2014. The Upper Silesian Creole. Kreol górnośląski. Das oberschlesische Kreol. Le créole haute-silésien. Wiyrchnoślōnski kreol
Reviewed by Thomas Stolz | JPCL 32:1 (2017) pp. 179–181
A pan-Creole innovation?
Ian Hancock | JPCL 32:1 (2017) pp. 159–169
21 October 2016
Creole distinctiveness: A dead end
Enoch O. Aboh | JPCL 31:2 (2016) pp. 400–418
You got Gungbe, but we got the numbers: Feature pools show that creoles are still typologically distinct
Peter Bakker | JPCL 31:2 (2016) pp. 419–435
Creole formation and L2 acquisition: On re-evaluating processes and labels
Marlyse Baptista | JPCL 31:2 (2016) pp. 361–389
A socio-historical account of the formation of the creole language of Antigua
Maria Teresa Galarza Ballester | JPCL 31:2 (2016) pp. 288–315
The Germans and German influence on Krio, and the Krio R
Ian F. Hancock | JPCL 31:2 (2016) pp. 390–399
The sociolinguistic situation in Guadeloupe: Diglossia reconsidered
Kathe Managan | JPCL 31:2 (2016) pp. 253–287
Language variation and dimensions of prestige in Belizean Kriol
William Salmon & Jennifer Gómez Menjivar | JPCL 31:2 (2016) pp. 316–360
Jakob R. E. Leimgruber. 2013. Singapore English. Structure, variation and usage. Studies in English Language
Reviewed by Umberto Ansaldo | JPCL 31:2 (2016) pp. 463–466
Philip Baker & Lee Pederson. 2013. Talk of St Kitts and Nevis
Reviewed by Andrei A. Avram | JPCL 31:2 (2016) pp. 440–444
Gabriel Antunes de Araujo & Tjerk Hagemeijer. 2013. Dicionário livre santome/português – Livlu-nglandji santome/putugêji
Reviewed by Alan N. Baxter | JPCL 31:2 (2016) pp. 458–462
Otto Zwartjes. 2011. Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800
Reviewed by Alan N. Baxter | JPCL 31:2 (2016) pp. 449–453
Christina Märzhäuser. 2011. Portugiesisch und Kabuverdianu in Kontakt. Muster des Code-Switching und lexikalische Innovationen in Raptexten aus Lissabon [Portuguese and Kabuverdianu in contact. Code-switching patterns and lexical innovations in rap texts from Lisbon]
Reviewed by Eva Martha Eckkrammer | JPCL 31:2 (2016) pp. 454–458
Armin Schwegler & Graciela Maglia. 2012. Palenque (Colombia): oralidad, identidad y resistencia
Reviewed by John M. Lipski | JPCL 31:2 (2016) pp. 436–439
Miriam Meyerhoff & James A. Walker. 2013. Bequia Talk (St Vincent and the Grenadines)
Reviewed by Paula Prescod | JPCL 31:2 (2016) pp. 445–448
Bettina Migge & Isabelle Léglise. 2013. Exploring language in a multilingual context. Variation, interaction and ideology in language documentation
Reviewed by Kofi Yakpo | JPCL 31:2 (2016) pp. 467–472
John Alexander Holm: 1943–2015
Alan N. Baxter | JPCL 31:2 (2016) pp. 245–252
10 May 2016
The Present Perfect borders: A study in language contact
Patrícia Amaral | JPCL 31:1 (2016) pp. 16–41
Stepping back to move forward: An introspection on the history of some key questions driving our field
Marlyse Baptista | JPCL 31:1 (2016) pp. 184–199
Critical mass in Michif
Carrie Gillon & Nicole Rosen | JPCL 31:1 (2016) pp. 113–140
Moving forward in time: Spatial construal of time in Singapore English
Huishan A. Goh | JPCL 31:1 (2016) pp. 1–15
An outline of Macau Pidgin Portuguese
Michelle Li & Stephen Matthews | JPCL 31:1 (2016) pp. 141–183
Palenquero and Spanish: A first psycholinguistic exploration
John M. Lipski | JPCL 31:1 (2016) pp. 42–81
Rethinking Australian Aboriginal English-based speech varieties: Evidence from Woorabinda
Jennifer Munro & Ilana Mushin | JPCL 31:1 (2016) p. 82
Response to Sessarego’s response
Danae Perez | JPCL 31:1 (2016) pp. 213–216
A response to Perez
Sandro Sessarego | JPCL 31:1 (2016) pp. 200–212
Robin Sabino. 2012. Language contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack his jacket
Reviewed by Peter Bakker | JPCL 31:1 (2016) pp. 223–228
Claudine Chamoreau & Isabelle Léglise. 2012. Dynamics of contact-induced language change
Reviewed by Jeff Good | JPCL 31:1 (2016) pp. 237–241
Nicholas Faraclas. 2012. Agency in the emergence of creole languages
Reviewed by George L. Huttar | JPCL 31:1 (2016) pp. 217–222
Dany Adone. 2012. The acquisition of creole languages: How children surpass their input
Reviewed by Stephen Matthews | JPCL 31:1 (2016) pp. 229–232
John R. Rickford, Julie Sweetland, Angela E. Rickford & Thomas Grano. 2012. African American, creole, and other vernacular Englishes in Education: A bibliographic resource
Reviewed by Bettina Migge | JPCL 31:1 (2016) pp. 233–236
Roshni Mooneeram. 2009. From Creole to Standard. Shakespeare, language, and literature in a postcolonial context
Reviewed by Susanne Mühleisen | JPCL 31:1 (2016) pp. 242–244
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