Pidgins and creoles and linguistics -- Before European expansion -- Early European expansion -- The eighteenth century -- The early nineteenth century -- Van Name -- Schuchardt and his contemporaries -- Hesseling and his contemporaries -- Reinecke and his contemporaries -- Hall and Taylor -- Monogenesis -- The creole continuum -- Universalists again -- Substratists again -- Other trends -- Social factors -- The Portuguese-based creoles -- Angolar Creole Portuguese -- The Spanish-based creoles -- Papiamentu Creole Spanish -- The Dutch-based creoles -- Negerhollands Creole Dutch -- The French-based creoles -- Haitian Creole French -- English-based Atlantic creoles -- Jamaican Creole English -- English-based Pacific pidgins and creoles -- Tok Pisin -- Pidgins and creoles based on other languages -- Nubi Creole Arabic -- Lexicosemantics -- Pidginization and the lexicon -- Superstrate sources -- Substrate lexical influence -- Other lexical sources -- Morphological changes -- Semantic changes -- Change of syntactic function -- Phonology -- Continua -- Phonotactic rules -- Oral vowels -- Nasal vowels -- Vowel harmony -- Consonants -- Suprasegmentals -- Syntax -- The verb phrase -- Forms of 'be' -- Serial verbs -- The noun phrase -- Other function words -- Word order
Summary
This textbook is a clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being. Starting with an overview of the field's basic concepts, it surveys the new languages that developed as a result of the European expansion to the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index
