Arends Jacques (Editor). The Early Stages of Creolization

John Benjamins, 1995. — xv, 297 pages. — (Creole Language Library 13). — ISB N 9 0 27 2 523 4 3 / 1-55619-167-7.During the last fifteen years creole studies has witnessed a remarkable growth of interest in the early stages of creolization. This interest has manifested itself in two different but interconnected directions, one linguistic—the study of early creole documents—, the other extralinguistic—the investigation of the sociohistorical and demographic matrix of creole genesis. Both directions are represented in this book, although the 'intralinguistic' papers are clearly in the majority, which probably reflects the current state of affairs in the field. This volume—the first collection of papers devoted entirely to the early stages of creolization—offers a representative view of the type of research that is presently being done in 'historical creolistics.'Some Developmental Inferences from the Historical Studies of Pidgins and Creoles
Eighteenth-Century Negerhollands Reflexives Revisited
Early Creole Writing and its Effects on the Discovery of Creole Language Structure: The Case of Eighteenth-Century Negerhollands
The Negerhollands Word sender in Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts
Early Bajan: Creole or Non-creole?
The Emergence of taki as a Complementizer in Sranan: On Substrate Influence, Universals, and Gradual Creolization
Relative Clauses in Early Sranan
The Demographics of Creole Genesis in the Caribbean: A Comparison of Martinique and Haiti
Demographic Factors in the Formation of Sranan