Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages

Abstract

1. Preface 2. Part I 3. 1. Maintenance or assimilation? Phonological variation and change in the realization of /t / by British Barbadians (by Brana-Straw, Michelle C.) 4. 2. Universal and substrate influence on the phonotactics and syllable structure of Krio (by Finney, Malcolm Awadajin) 5. 3. Tone on quantifiers in Saramaccan as a transferred feature from Kikongo (by Kramer, Marvin) 6. 4. Morphophonological properties of pitch accents in Jamaican Creole reduplication (by Gooden, Shelome) 7. 5. Effort reduction and the grammar: Liquid phonology in Haitian and St. Lucian (by Russell, Eric) 8. Part II 9. 6. Reflexivity in Capeverdean: Predicate properties and sentence structure (by Fieis, Maria Alexandra) 10. 7. An additional pronoun and hierarchies in creolized Chinuk Wawa (by Robertson, David D.) 11. 8. Three irregular verbs in Gullah (by Frank, David B.) 12. 9. Afro-Bolivian Spanish: The survival of a true creole prototype (by Lipski, John M.) 13. 10. Copula patterns in Hawai'i Creole: Creole origin and decreolization (by Inoue, Aya) 14. Part III 15. 11. On the properties of Papiamentu pa: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives (by Lefebvre, Claire) 16. 12. No exception to the rule: The tense-aspect-modality system of Papiamentu reconsidered (by Faraclas, Nicholas) 17. 13. A look at so in Mauritian Creole: From possessive pronoun to emphatic determiner (by Guillemin, Diana) 18. 14. Chinese Spanish in 19th century Cuba: Documenting sociohistorical context (by Walicek, Don E.) 19. 15. Comparative perspectives on the origins, development and structure of Amazonian (Karipuna) French Creole (by Ferreira, Jo-Anne S.) 20. Index