Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Volume 28, Issue 1 (2013)

2013.  iv, 202 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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
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