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John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia
Is creolization an abrupt or a gradual process? In this volume leading scholars provide both comparative and case studies that outline their working definitions and their views on the particular or average time depth, or key processes necessary for...
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Is creolization an abrupt or a gradual process? In this volume leading scholars provide both comparative and case studies that outline their working definitions and their views on the particular or average time depth, or key processes necessary for contact language formation, providing a state-of-the art assessment of the theory of gradual creolization. Authors scrutinize the roles of nativization, demography, initial settlement, language composition, koineization, adstrate presence, bilingualism, as well as a variety of structural features in pidgins, creoles and other contact languages world
Gradual Creolization; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Picture of Jacques Arends; Table of contents; Maps; One more cup of coffee; Jacques Arends' model of gradual creolization*; Linguistic analysis; Productive bimorphemic structuresand the concept of gradual creolization*; Gradual vs. abrupt creolization and recent changes in Daman Creole Portuguese*; Gradual restructuring in Ecuadorian Quechua*; A note on the process of lexical diffusion in the development of creoles; Change in the possessive system of French Caribbean Creole Languages*
The origin and development of possibility in the creoles of Suriname*The Saramaccan lexicon; Development of a creole lexicon*; Gradualism in the transfer of tone spread rules in Saramaccan; In search of a submerged phonology; Sociohistorical reconstruction; Bilingualism and creolization in Solomon Islands*; Lingua Franca in West Africa?; The formation of the Portuguese-based Creoles; English-speaking in early Surinam?*; The demographic context of creolization in early English Jamaica, 1655-1700; The Founder Principle and Anguilla's Homestead Society*
Demographic factors in the formation of French Guianese CreoleIndex; The series Creole Language Library;
