Readings in Creole Studies

• Forward | pp. vii–ix
• Part one: general theory
• 1. Prolegomena to any sane creology
  T. Givón | pp. 3–35
• 2. Some remarks on the baby talk theory and the relexification theory
  Geert Koefoed | pp. 37–54
• 3. Simplification, pidginization and language change
  William J. Samarin | pp. 55–68
• 4. Social interaction and the development of stabilized pidgins
  Paul Stoller | pp. 69–79
• 5. On the origins of the term pidgin
  Ian F. Hancock | pp. 81–86
• Part two: african language related
• 6. Some linguistic characteristics of African-based pidgins
  Bernd Heine | pp. 89–98
• 7. Commercial Dyula: a pidgin's first cousin
  Peter Gingiss | pp. 99–105
• 8. Some further comments on Urban Dioula
  Gayle Partmann | pp. 107–109
• 9. The context is the message: morphological, syntactic and semantic reduction and deletion in Nairobi and Kampala varieties of Swahili
  Carol Myers-Scotton | pp. 111–127
• 10. Non-standard forms of Swahili in west-central Kenya
  James J. Duran | pp. 129–151
• 11. The origin and development of Lingala
  Jan Knappert | pp. 153–164
• 12. Free variation in the concord system of written Lingala
  Franz Rottland | pp. 165–171
• 13. Fula: a language of change
  Philip A. Noss | pp. 173–188
• 14. French loanwords in Sango: the motivation of lexical borrowing
  Charles R. Taber | pp. 189–197
• Part three: Romance language related
• 15. On the origin and chronology of the French-based creoles
  Alexander Hull | pp. 201–215
• 16. Créoles français de l'Ocean Indien et langues africaines
  Robert Chaudenson | pp. 217–237
• 17. Seychelles Creole French phonemics
  Chris Corne | pp. 239–251
• 18. French and Creole in Guadeloupe
  David Bedford | pp. 253–257
• Part four: English related
• 19. Creole English and Creole Portuguese: teh early records
  J.L. Dillard | pp. 261–268
• 20. Cameroonian Pidgin English: a neo-African language
  Charles Gilman | pp. 269–280
• 21. Cameroonian: a consideration of 'what's in a name?'
  Loreto Todd | pp. 281–294
• 22. Ethnographic statement in the NIgerian novel, with special reference to Pidgin
  Mary Hope Lee | pp. 295–302
• 23. Uses of Pidgin in the early literate English of Nigeria
  Elizabeth Tonkin | pp. 303–308
• 24. The status of bin in the Atlantic creoles
  Derek Bickerton | pp. 309–314
• 25. Across base-language boundries: the creole of Belize (British Honduras)
  Marlis Hellinger | pp. 315–333
• 26. A note on creolization and the continuum
  Lilith M. Haynes | pp. 335–338
• 27. Why Black English retains so m any creole
  Elizabeth Closs Traugott | pp. 339–346
• List of contributors | pp. 347–350
• Notes on the editors | pp. 351–352

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