The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies

List of Abbreviations. 1 Introduction (Silvia Kouwenberg and John Victor Singler). Part I Properties of Pidgins and Creoles. 2 Atlantic Creole Syntax (Donald Winford). 3 Forging Pacific Pidgin and Creole Syntax: Substrate, Discourse, and Inherent Variability (Miriam Meyerhoff). 4 Pidgin and Creole Morphology (Terry Crowley). 5 Creole Phonology (Norval S. H. Smith). 6 Pidgins versus Creoles and Pidgincreoles (Peter Bakker). 7 Non-Indo-European Pidgins and Creoles (Kees Versteegh). Part II Perspectives on Pidgin/Creole Genesis. 8 Pidgins/Creoles, and Second Language Acquisition (Jeff Siegel). 9 Creole Genesis: The Impact of the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis (Tonjes Veenstra). 10 Pidgins/Creoles and Historical Linguistics (Sarah G. Thomason). 11 Pidgins/Creoles and Contact Languages: An Overview (Rajend Mesthrie). 12 Creole Studies and Multilingualism (Pieter Muysken). 13 A Demographic Perspective on Creole Formation (Jacques Arends). 14 The Sociohistorical Context of Creole Genesis (John Victor Singler). 15 The Cultural in Pidgin Genesis (Christine Jourdan). Part III Pidgins/Creoles and Linguistic Explanation. 16 Grammaticalization in Pidgins and Creoles (Adrienne Bruyn). 17 Creoles, Markedness, and Default Settings: An Appraisal (Alain Kihm). 18 Semantic Evidence in Pidgin and Creole Genesis (George Huttar). 19 Pidgins, Creoles, and Variation (Peter L. Patrick). Part IV Pidgins/Creoles and Kindred Languages. 20 The Case of Signed Languages in the Context of Pidgin and Creole Studies (Judy Kegl). 21 Pidgins/Creoles and African American English (Arthur K. Spears). 22 Spanish-Based Creoles in the Caribbean (John M. Lipski). Part V Pidgins/Creoles in Society. 23 Pidgins/Creoles and Discourse (Genevieve Escure). 24 Pidgins/Creoles and Education (Dennis Craig). 25 Language Planning in Pidgins and Creoles (Hubert Devonish). 26 Literary Representations of Creole Languages: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives from the Caribbean (Helene Buzelin and Lise Winer). Author Index. Language Index. Subject Index.