Philip Baker

List of John Benjamins publications for which Philip Baker plays a role.

Articles

Baker, Philip 2009 Productive bimorphemic structures and the concept of gradual creolizationGradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends, Selbach, Rachel, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg (eds.), pp. 27–53 | Article
In pidgin and creole (P/C) studies, ‘bimorphemic’ is normally associated with bimorphemic interrogatives (‘question words’). I demonstrate that these are merely part of a wider range of bimorphemic structures which play an important vocabulary-building role in P/Cs. I then discuss Arends’ (1989)… read more
Baker, Philip and Magnus Huber 2001 Atlantic, Pacific, and world-wide features in English-lexicon contact languagesEnglish World-Wide 22:2, pp. 157–208 | Article
This article analyzes the earliest known attestations of 302 lexical, functional, and grammatical features in 13 English-lexicon contact languages in the Atlantic and the Pacific. The main aims are (i) to shed light on the historical relationships between the individual varieties, (ii) to learn… read more
Baker, Philip 2000 Chris Corne 1942–1999Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 15:1, pp. 155–158 | Miscellaneous
Baker, Philip 2000 Theories of creolization and the degree and nature of restructuringDegrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages, Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.), pp. 41 ff. | Article
Baker, Philip 1991 Writing the WrongedJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 6:1, pp. 107–122 | Miscellaneous
Baker, Philip 1991 Causes and EffectsJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 6:2, pp. 267–278 | Miscellaneous
Baker, Philip and Anand Syea 1991 On the Copula in Mauritian Creole, Past and PresentDevelopment and Structures of Creole Languages: Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton, Byrne, Francis and Thom Huebner (eds.), pp. 159 ff. | Article
Baker, Philip 1990 Pacific ReorientationsJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 5:2, pp. 253–269 | Miscellaneous
Baker, Philip 1990 Off Target?Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 5:1, pp. 107–119 | Miscellaneous
The development of pronouns, copulas, and other key features of Chinese Pidgin English (CPE) is traced from 1743 onwards. Major grammatical and lexical changes in the early 19th century are found to coincide with the period when foreigners were increasingly allowed to reside in Canton instead of… read more
Baker, Philip and Chris Corne 1986 Universals, Substrata and the Indian Ocean CreolesSubstrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985, Muysken, Pieter and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 163 ff. | Article