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Until very recently, phonology and morphology have been neglected areas in the study of creole languages. This collection of articles presents intriguing data and new analyses from a wide range of creoles that call into question traditional claims about the nature of the phonological and morphological systems of these languages and give crucial insights into one of the major questions of creole studies, i.e. the question of how these languages and their grammars come about. The volume is organized into 5 sections, each focusing on particular aspects of the respective subsystems: >Segments and syllables<, >Stress, tone and intonation<, >Morphophonology<, >Derivational morphology<, >Inflection<.
Preface
Introduction
Section 1: Segments and syllables
Markedness, faithfulness and creolization: The retention of the unmarked
A new look at nasalization in Haitian Creole
Two types of R deletion in Haitian Creole
Rules vs. analogy: Modeling variation in word-final epenthesis in Sranan
New evidence from the past: To epenthesize or not to epenthesize? That is the question
Syllabic structure and creolization in Saotomense
Section 2: Stress, tone and intonation
The accentual system of Haitian Creole: The role of transfer and markedness values
African American English suprasegmentals: A study of pitch patterns in the Black English of the United States
Section 3: Morphophonology
The role of tone and rhyme structure in the organisation of grammatical morphemes in Tobagonian
Prosodic contrast in Jamaican Creole reduplication
Syllable structure and lexical markedness in creole morphophonology: Determiner allomorphy in Haitian and elsewhere
Section 4: Derivational morphology
Early 18th century Sranan -man
Morphological processes of word formation in Chabacano (Philippine Spanish Creole)
The -pela suffix in Tok Pisin and the notion of βsimplicityβ in pidgin and creole languages: What happens to morphology under contact?
Section 5: Inflectional morphology
What verbal morphology can tell us about creole genesis: the case of French-related creoles
Inflectional plural marking in pidgins and creoles: A comparative study
Inflectional categories in creole languages
Subject Index
Language Index
Author Index
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