CONTENTS
PREFACE and ACKNOWLEDGMENTS / Arthur K. Spears = ⅴ
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Introduction : On the structure and status of pidgins and creoles / Donald Winford = 1
SECTION ONE : TERMINOLOGY AND TYPOLOGY
Jargons, pidgins, creoles, and kiones : What are they? / Salikoko S. Mufwene = 35
A typology of contact languages / Sarah G. Thomason = 71
SECTION TWO : PROCESS AND EVOLUTION
Directionality in pidginization and creolization / Philip Baker = 91
Mixing, leveling, and pidgin／creole development / Jeff Siegel = 111
'Matrix language recognition' and 'morpheme sorting' as possible structural strategies in pidgin／creole formation / Carol Myers-Scotton = 151
The creolization of pidgin morphophonology / William J. Samarin = 175
SECTION THREE : SOURCES AND GENESIS
Saramaccan Creole origins : Portuguese-derived lexical correspondences and the relexification hypothesis / Michael Aceto = 219
Lost in transmission : A case for the independent emergence of the copula in Atlantic creoles / John H. McWhorter = 241
SECTION FOUR : QUESTIONS OF STATUS
Creole-like features in the verb system of an Afro-Brazilian variety of Purtuguese / Alan N. Baxter = 265
The verb phrase in Afrikaans : Evidence of creolization? / Christa de Kleine = 289
Shaba Swahili : Partial creolization due to second language learning and substarate pressure / Vincent A. de Rooij = 309
The status of Isicamtho, an Nguni-based urban variety of Soweto / G. Tucker Childs = 341
SECTION FIVE : ASPECTS OF STRUCTURE
New light on Eskimo pidgins / Hein van der Voort = 373
Reduplication in Ndyuka / Mary L. Huttar ; George L. Huttar = 395
Tense-aspect-mood in Principense / Philippe Maurer = 415
Author Index = 437
Language Index = 443
Subject Index = 451
