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Atlantic Meets Pacific
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1992; US$ 195.00Selected papers from the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics. more...
Creole and Dialect Continua
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1997; US$ 180.00Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research on standard language acquisition, little attention has been given to the mechanisms underlying second dialect acquisition. Using a combination of function-based grammar and sociolinguistic methodology to analyze topic marking strategies, the unguided acquisition of a standard by speakers... more...
Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001; US$ 200.00Basic notions in the field of creole studies, including the category of “creole languages” itself, have been questioned in recent years: Can creoles be defined on structural or on purely sociohistorical grounds? Can creolization be understood as a graded process, possibly resulting in different degrees of “radicalness” and intermediate... more...
Development and Structures of Creole Languages
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 158.00This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career. Each author included in the volume is a noted scholar who has distinguished him/herself in some area of linguistics and has professionally or personally interacted with Bickerton and been influenced by his work.... more...
The Early Stages of Creolization
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1996; US$ 180.00This volume brings together a number of studies on the early stages of creolization which are entirely based on historical data. The recent (re)discovery of early documents written in creole languages such as Negerhollands, Bajan, and Sranan, allows for a detailed and empirically founded reconstruction of creolization as an historical-linguistic process.... more...
Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1993; US$ 180.00The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, but also, in a much broader sense, the many other phenomena and processes found in these languages which serve to highlight sentence-level elements. The book is organized into five sections:... more...
The Genesis of a Language
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1996; US$ 180.00Korlai Portuguese (KP), a Portuguese-based creole only recently discovered by linguists, originated around 1520 on the west coast of India. Initially isolated from its Hindu and Muslim neighbors by social and religious barriers, the small Korlai community lost virtually all Portuguese contact as well after 1740. This volume is the first-ever comprehensive... more...
Grammatical Relations in a Radical Creole
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1987; US$ 180.00With English and Portuguese as parent languages; the significant lexical retention of African languages; and the relative isolation of its speakers, Saramaccan has always stood out among Creole languages. Yet despite its obvious interest Saramaccan received little in the way of scholarly study. This groundbraking monograph dispels the mystery surrounding... more...
Kriyol Syntax
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1994; US$ 180.00This book describes the Portuguese-based Creole which is widely spoken as a first language in Guinea-Bissau. The study focuses on one variety, 'central Kriyol', and its main aim is to present a complete description of the grammar of the language. The theoretical framework for the syntactic analysis is purposely eclectic but relies primarily on Generalized... more...
Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1990; US$ 165.00More than any other area of the grammar, tense-mood-aspect (TMA) has provided evidence to fuel the ongoing debates about creole genesis and about the relevance of pidgin and creole phenomena to language theory more generally. This volume advances the debate in two ways. First, it makes available in print for the first time and in its original form... more...









