The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics
Edited by Arthur K. Spears and Donald Winford
[Creole Language Library, 19] 1997. viii, 461 pp.
Arthur K. Spears
List of John Benjamins publications for which Arthur K. Spears plays a role.
Title
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Typology
Articles
2007. 15. Bare nouns in African American English (AAE). Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach, Baptista, Marlyse and Jacqueline Guéron (eds.), pp. 421–434
Bare count (and mass) nouns, defined as nouns with no determiner or number suffix, occur in African American English, a partially restructured, noncreole language. It is noteworthy that bare nouns in AAE may take definite and generic interpretations. Bare nouns with defi nite interpretations were… read more | Chapter
2005. Review of Gilbert (2002): Pidgin and creole linguistics in the twenty-first century. Creole Language in Creole Literatures, Mühleisen, Susanne (ed.), pp. 218–227
Review
2001. 9. Directness in the use of African American English. Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English, Lanehart, Sonja L. (ed.), pp. 239 ff.
Article
1997. Preface and Acknowledgments. The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics, Spears, Arthur K. and Donald Winford (eds.), pp. v ff.
Miscellaneous
1993. Stem and So-Called Anterior Verb Forms in Haitian Creole. Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization, Byrne, Francis and John Holm † (eds.), pp. 261 ff.
Article
1993. Foregrounding and Backgrounding in Haitian Creole Discourse. Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages: Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages, Byrne, Francis and Donald Winford (eds.), pp. 249 ff.
Article
1991. Review of Déchaine (): Operations sur les structures argumentales: Le cas des constructions sérielles en créole haïtien & Brousseau (): Triptyque sur les composés: Les noms composés en français, fongbe et haïtien en regard des notions de tête et de percolation & Sterlin (): Les differentes caracteristiques de pou en créole haïtien. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 6:1, pp. 155–160
Review
1991. Review of Déchaine (): Operations sur les structures argumentales: Le cas des constructions sérielles en créole haïtien & Brousseau (): Triptyque sur les composés: Les noms composés en français, fongbe et haïtien en regard des notions de tête et de percolation & Sterlin (): Les differentes caracteristiques de pou en créole haïtien. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 6:1, pp. 155–160
Review
1991. Review of Déchaine (): Operations sur les structures argumentales: Le cas des constructions sérielles en créole haïtien & Brousseau (): Triptyque sur les composés: Les noms composés en français, fongbe et haïtien en regard des notions de tête et de percolation & Sterlin (): Les differentes caracteristiques de pou en créole haïtien. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 6:1, pp. 155–160
Review
1990. Tense, Mood, and Aspect in the Haitian Creole Preverbal Marker System. Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems, Singler, John Victor (ed.), pp. 119 ff.
Article