Atlantic Meets Pacific

A global view of pidginization and creolization

Editors

Francis Byrne

John Holm †

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Selected papers from the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics.

[Creole Language Library, 11] 1993. ix, 465 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.11

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	v
Contents	vii
Introduction: Perspectives on the Atlantic and Pacific…and Beyond Francis Byrne and John Holm †	1
1. Phonolgy
Latent Intervocalic Liquids in Aluku: Links to the Phonological Past of a Maroon creole Kenneth M. Bilby	25
On Onsets: Explaining Negerhollands Initial Clusters Robin Sabino	37
2. Morphology and Syntax
A Bantu Model for the Seychellois pour dire Complementizer Charles Gilman	49
Polysemic Functionality of Prepositions in Pidgin and Creoles: The Case of fò in Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin Charles C. Mann	57
Is Haitian Creole a Pro-Drop Language? Michel DeGraff	71
Null Subject in Mauritian Creole and the Pro-Drop Parameter Anand Syea	91
The Mauritian Creole lekor Reflective: Substrate Influence on the Target-Location Parameter Guy Carden	105
Cliticization of pronouns in Berbice Dutch and Eastern Ijo Silvia Kouwenberg	119
Are There Possessive Pronouns in Atlantic Creoles? Salikoko S. Mufwene	133
Subject Pronouns and Person/ Number in Palenquero Armin Schwegler	145
Are Ndjuká Comparative Markers Verbs? George L. Huttar and Evert Koanting	165
Why Serial Verb Constructions? Neither Bioprogram nor Substrate! Eric Schiller	175
Directional Serial Verb Constructions in Caribbean English Creoles Donald Winford	183
A Few Observations on the Creole Aspectual Marker ta and Some Implications for Finiteness Francis Byrne and Alexander F. Caskey	207
Origin and Development of ta in Afro-Hispanic Creoles John M. Lipski	217
Creole Aspect and Morphological Typology Stephen Matthews	233
Subjunctive Mood in Papiamentu Philippe Maurer	243
The Decline of Predicate Marking in Tok Pisin Suzanne Romaine	251
Stem and So-Called Anterior Verb Forms in Haitian Creole Arthur K. Spears	261
3. Social Concerns
The Parallel Continuum Model for Suriname: A Preliminary Study Maureen Healy	279
Haitian Creole as the Official Language in Education and in the Media: The Effects on Structure, Lexicon and Status Kate Howe	291
Pidgins and Creoles in Education in Australia and the Southwest Pacific Jeff Siegel	299
Is Tok a Threat to Sare? Kenneth M. Sumbuk	309
4. Pidgins & Pidginization
A Contribution by an Old Creole to the Origins of Pidgin Portuguese J. Clancy Clements	321
The Transitivizer and Pidgin Chronology J.L. Dillard	333
Tok Pisin I Kamap Pisin Gen? Is Tok Pisin Repidginizing? John Holm † and Christopher Kepiou	341
Documenting the Papian-Based Pidgins of Insular New Guinea Jeffrey P. Williams	355
5. Creoles and Creolization
Towards a Gradualist Model of Creolization Jacques Arends	371
The Genesis of Portuguese Creole in Africa Hildo Honório do Couto	381
The Transmission of Creole Languages Alexander Hull	391
African vs Austronesian Substrate Influence on the Spanish-Based Creoles Gerardo A. Lorenzino	399
Antillean Creole on St Barthélemy Julianne Maher	409
Hesseling and Van Ginneken on Language Contact, Variation, and Creolization Peter Slomanson	419
6. Other Contact-induced Phenomena
Foreign Workers’ German: Is It a Pidgin? Carol A. Blackshire-Belay	431
Shaba Swahili and the Processes of Linguistic Contact Andre Mwamba Kapanga	441
Learning Pidgin English Trough Chinese Characters Dingxu Shi	459

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Subjects

Linguistics

Creole studies

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Contact Linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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