Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Volume 14, Issue 1 (1999)

1999.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.14.1

Table of Contents

Articles
Transfer Constraints and Substrate Influence in Melanesian Pidgin Jeff Siegel	1–44
Tone Sandhi in Saramaccan: A Case of Substrate Transfer? William H. Ham	45–91
Looking Beyond Decreolization as an Explanatory Model of Language Change in Creole-Speaking Communities Michael Aceto	93–119
Column
More on Non-Canonical Creoles Peter Mühlhäusler	121–130
Short Notes
Lexical Polysemy in Indian Pidgin English Raja Ram Mehrotra	131–135
Creole in the Ex-Slave Recordings David Sutcliffe	137–142
Book Reviews
Review of Guy, Feagin, Baugh & Schiffrin (1996): Towards a social science of language. Papers in honor of William Labov. Volume I. Variation and change in language and society Reviewed by John H. McWhorter	143–147
Review of Christie (1996): Caribbean language issues: Old and new Reviewed by Jeffrey H. Allen	148–153
Review of Couto (1996): Introdução ao estudo das línguas crioulas e pidgins Reviewed by William W. Megenney	153–159
Review of Wekker (1996): Creole languages and language acquisition Reviewed by Suzanne Romaine	159–162
Review of Warner-Lewis (1996): Trinidad Yoruba: From mother tongue to memory Reviewed by George L. Huttar	162–167
Review of Sonomura (1996): Idiomaticity in the basic writing of American English: Formulas and idioms in the writing of multilingual and creole-speaking community college students in Hawaii Reviewed by Hirokuni Masuda	167–171
Review of Bartens (1996): Der kreolische Raum: Geschichte und Gegenwart Reviewed by Stephanie Hackert	171–176
Review of Schneider (1996): Focus on the USA Reviewed by Charles Boberg	176–182
Review of Thomason (1996): Contact languages: A wider perspective Reviewed by Ilse Lehiste	182–190
Review of Drechsel (1997): Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and sociocultural aspects of a Native American pidgin Reviewed by Anthony P. Grant	191–196
Review of Manessy (1995): Créoles, pidgins, variétés véhiculaires: Procès et genèse Reviewed by Dudley K. Nylander	196–202
Review of Baker & Syea (1996): Changing meanings, changing functions. Papers relating to grammaticaliza-tion in contact languages Reviewed by Ingo Plag	202–208
Review of Baker & Syea (1996): Changing meanings, changing functions. Papers relating to grammaticalization in contact languages Reviewed by Elizabeth Closs Traugott	208–213
Letters to the Editor
John McWhorter in response to Derek Bickerton John H. McWhorter	215–216
John Victor Singler in response to Derek Bickerton John Victor Singler	217–218
J. L. Dillard in response to Derek Bickerton J.L. Dillard	219–220
Derek Bickerton in response to John Victor Singler Derek Bickerton	221–222
Derek Bickerton in response to J.L. Dillard Derek Bickerton	222–223