Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Volume 28, Issue 1 (2013)

2013. iv, 202 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.28.1

Table of Contents

Review Article
Creoles and educational policy Reviewed by Patrick-André Mather	1–11
Articles
Serial Verb Constructions in Indian Ocean French Creoles (IOCs): Substrate, universal, or an independent diachronic development? Anand Syea	13–64
Quiero para mi novio: Aspectual uses of para in Paraguayan Spanish Maura Velázquez-Castillo and Mary Hudgens Henderson	65–102
Slang registers, code-switching and restructured urban varieties in South Africa: An analytic overview of tsotsitaals with special reference to the Cape Town variety Rajend Mesthrie and Ellen Hurst	103–130
Short Notes
Language Turned Off? The legacy of the bioprogram hypothesis John H. McWhorter	131–136
TXT MSG’ing among French Reunion 18-to 25-year-olds: A pilot study of mobile-mediated communication in a diglossic context Florence Dupré	137–153
Reassessment of the Portuguese contribution to the Papiamentu lexicon Bart Jacobs	154–165
Guest Column
Why noncompositional derivation isn’t boring: A second try on the ‘other’ part of the Creole prototype hypothesis John H. McWhorter	167–179
Book Reviews
Review of Bizri & Hagège (2010): Pidgin Madame. Une grammaire de la servitude Reviewed by Peter Bakker	181–186
Review of Devonish & Thompson (2010): A concise grammar of Guyanese Creole (Creolese) Reviewed by Shondel Nero	187–192
Review of Aboh & Essegbey (2010): Topics in Kwa syntax Reviewed by George L. Huttar	193–197
Review of Matras (2010): Romani in Britain. The afterlife of a language Reviewed by Peter Bakker	198–202

Subjects

Linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Historical linguistics

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