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Creole Language Library Series

53 primary works • 53 total works
A book series presenting descriptive and theoretical studies designed to add significantly to the data available on pidgin and creole languages. All CLL publications are anonymously and internationally refereed.

The series Creole Language Library will be continued as Contact Language Library as of Volume 54.

Book 1

Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985
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0.00 · published 1986 · 4 editions
Two of the most prominent hypotheses about why the…

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    Book 2

    The Syntax of Serial Verbs
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1987 · 3 editions
    This monograph is about the chains of verbs common…

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    Book 3

    Grammatical Relations in a Radical Creole: Verb Complementation in Saramaccan
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1987 · 4 editions
    With English and Portuguese as parent languages; t…

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    Book 4

    The Speech of the Negros Congos in Panama
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    0.00     · published 1989 · 5 editions
    The negros congos of Panama's Caribbean coast are …

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    Book 5

    Sing Without Shame: Oral traditions in Indo-Portuguese Creole verse
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1990 · 4 editions
    This study of literary themes, linguistic practice…

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    Book 6

    Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems
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    0.00     · published 1990 · 4 editions
    More than any other area of the grammar, tense-moo…

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    Book 7

    History from Below: The “Vocabulary of Elisabethville” by André Yav: Text, Translations and Interpretive Essay
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1990 · 4 editions
    Johannes Fabian with assistance from Kalundi Mango…

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    Book 8

    The Emergence of Black English
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1991 · 6 editions
    Debate over the evolution of Black English Vernacu…

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    Book 9

    Development and Structures of Creole Languages
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    0.00     · published 1991 · 4 editions
    This collection of original essays is intended to …

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    Book 10

    Predication in Caribbean English Creoles
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1993 · 4 editions
    This is the first major study of the conservative …

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    Book 11

    Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization
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    3.33     · 3 Ratings · published 1992 · 5 editions
    Selected papers from the Society for Pidgin and Cr…

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    Book 12

    Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
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    0.00     · published 1993 · 4 editions
    The volume has as its topic, not only the types of…

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    Book 13

    The Early Stages of Creolization
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1996 · 4 editions
    This volume brings together a number of studies on…

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    Book 14

    Kriyol Syntax
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    0.00     · published 1994 · 4 editions
    This book describes the Portuguese-based Creole wh…

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    Book 15

    Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction
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    3.79     · 14 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1994 · 6 editions
    This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgi…

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    Book 16

    The Genesis of a Language
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    0.00     · published 1996 · 4 editions
    Korlai Portuguese (KP), a Portuguese-based creole …

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    Book 17

    Contact Languages: A wider perspective
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1997 · 4 editions
    This book contributes to a more balanced view of t…

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    Book 18

    Creole and Dialect Continua
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    0.00     · published 1997 · 4 editions
    Although there is a substantial amount of linguist…

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    Book 19

    The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles
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    Destined to become a landmark work, this book is d…

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    Book 20

    Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1999 · 4 editions
    This collection in honor of creolist Charlene Junk…

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    Book 21

    Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles
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    3.00     · 3 Ratings · published 1999 · 4 editions
    This book collects a selection of fifteen papers p…

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    Book 22

    Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages
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    0.00     · published 2001 · 4 editions
    Basic notions in the field of creole studies, incl…

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    Book 23

    Creolization and Contact.
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    This volume contains revised and extended versions…

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    Book 24

    Creole Discourse: Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles
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    0.00     · published 2002 · 3 editions
    Creole languages are characteristically associated…

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    Book 25

    Creole Formation as Language Contact
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2003 · 4 editions
    The research on the formation of (radical) creoles…

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    Book 26

    The Making of a Mixed Language
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2003 · 5 editions
    The Mbugu (or Ma'á) language (Tanzania) is one of …

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    Book 27

    Creoles, Contact, and Language Change
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    0.00     · published 2004 · 4 editions
    This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers…

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    Book 28

    History, Society and Variation
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    0.00     · published 2006 · 3 editions
    This volume presents a collection of new articles …

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    Book 29

    Structure and Variation in Language Contact
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    0.00     · published 2006 · 3 editions
    This volume presents a careful selection of fiftee…

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    Book 30

    Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley
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    0.00     · published 2007 · 3 editions
    This volume in memory of Terry Crowley covers a wi…

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    Book 31

    Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach
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    0.00     · published 2007 · 3 editions
    This volume offers a thorough examination of the s…

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    Book 32

    Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages
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    Book 33

    Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates
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    This book reflects an ongoing shift in the study o…

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    Book 34

    Gradual Creolization. Studies Celebrating Jacques Arends.
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    0.00     · published 2009 · 4 editions
    Is creolization an abrupt or a gradual process? In…

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    Book 35

    Complex Processes in New Languages
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    0.00     · published 2009 · 4 editions
    In recent years, there has been a new interest in …

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    Book 36

    Creoles in Education
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2010 · 4 editions
    This volume offers a first survey of projects from…

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    Book 37

    Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to individual agency
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    The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean…

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    Book 38

    The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System
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    Within the framework of Chomsky’s Minimalism and F…

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    Book 39

    Case-Marking in Contact
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    0.00     · published 2011 · 3 editions
    Until recently, mixed languages were considered an…

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    Book 40

    Kweyol in Postcolonial Saint Lucia Globalization, Language Planning, and National Development
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    0.00     · published 2011 · 1 edition
    Can historically marginalized, threatened language…

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    Book 41

    The Defective Copy Theory of Movement: Evidence from Wh-Constructions in Cape Verdean Creole
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    0.00     · published 2012 · 4 editions
    Within the framework of Chomsky’s Principles and P…

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    Book 42

    Phonological Variation in Rural Jamaican Schools
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    This book investigates variation in the classroom …

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    Book 43

    The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole Languages.
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    0.00     · published 2012 · 3 editions
    This is a new contribution to a theory of reiterat…

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    Book 44

    Roots of Afrikaans: Selected writings of Hans den Besten
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2012 · 3 editions
    Hans den Besten (1948-2010) made numerous contribu…

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    Book 45

    Agency in the Emergence of Creole Languages
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    0.00     · published 2012 · 3 editions
    This book is a ‘must read’ for those who are looki…

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    Book 46

    Ibero-Asian Creoles
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    0.00     · published 2012 · 3 editions
    Starting in 1498, contact between Ibero-Romance an…

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    Book 47

    Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe Encounters
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    0.00     · published 2014 · 3 editions
    Most of what we know about pidgin and creole langu…

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    Book 48

    Pidgins, Creoles and Mixed Languages
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    This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the …

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    Book 49

    Jamaican Creole Goes Web
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    0.00     · published 2015 · 2 editions
    Large-scale migration after WWII and the prominenc…

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    Book 50

    Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles
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    2.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2015 · 2 editions
    This book is about the functional categories of th…

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    Book 51

    Afro-Peruvian Spanish: Spanish slavery and the legacy of Spanish Creoles
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    0.00     · published 2015 · 2 editions
    The present work not only contributes to shedding …

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    Book 52

    Language and Slavery
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 2 editions
    This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new …

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    Book 53

    Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler
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    0.00     · published 2017 · 2 editions
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