Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Volume 23, Issue 2 (2008)

2008. 194 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.23.2

Table of Contents

Articles
Choosing a spelling system for Mauritian Creole Aaliya Rajah-Carrim	193–226
Formalizing creole sound change: An Optimality Theoretic account Eric Louis Russell	227–263
‘That’s a Rubbaboo’: Slavey Jargon in a nineteenth century Subarctic speech community Craig Mishler	264–287
Review article
Deconstructing Creole John H. McWhorter	289–306
Column
Creoles as interlanguages: Syntactic structures Ingo Plag	307–328
Short note
California Chinese Pidgin English and its historical connections: Preliminary remarks Ronald I. Kim	329–344
Book reviews
Review of Tryon & Charpentier (2004): Pacific pidgins and creoles: Origins, growth and development Reviewed by John H. McWhorter	345–350
Review of Coveney, Hintze & Sanders (): Variation et francophonie : Mélanges édités par Aidan Coveney, Marie-Anne Hintze et Carole Sanders en hommage à Gertrud Aub-Buscher Reviewed by Julie Auger	351–355
Review of Nero (2006): Dialects, Englishes, creoles and education Reviewed by Silvia Kouwenberg and Kedisha Williams	356–359
Review of Simmons-McDonald & Robertson (2006): Exploring the boundaries of Caribbean creole languages Reviewed by Kadian Walters	360–364
Review of Siegel, Lynch & Eades (2007): Language description, history and development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley Reviewed by Geoff Smith	365–370
Review of Sidnell (2005): Talk and practical epistemology: The social life of knowledge in a Caribbean community Reviewed by Bettina Migge	371–374
Review of Long (2007): English on the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands Reviewed by Miki Suzuki	375–378
Contents of Volume 23	379–381

Subjects

Linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Historical linguistics