Creolization and contact (Benjamins, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Creolization and Contact; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Relexification in creole genesis and its effects on the development of the creole; Chapter 2: Voodoo Chile; Chapter 3: Language intertwining; Chapter 4: Paralexification in language intertwining; Chapter 5: Pidginization, creolization and creoloids in Stockholm, Sweden; Chapter 6: The origin of creole languages; Chapter 7: Koine formation and creole genesis; Chapter 8: Koineization and creole genesis; Chapter 9: Convergence and explanations in creole genesis
This volume contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the papers presented at "The Amsterdam Workshop on Language Contact and Creolization." These studies apply the concept of relexification to creoles as well as other contact languages; highlight the relevance of strategies of second language learning for theories of pidgin/creole genesis; critically discuss the notions levelling (koine formation) and convergence; the relation between types of contact situations and processes of crosslinguistic influence; as well as the linguistic consequences of the social structure of the pla