Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Volume 27, Issue 1 (2012)

2012. iv, 208 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.27.1

Table of Contents

Articles
Typologizing grammatical complexities: or Why creoles may be paradigmatically simple but syntagmatically average Jeff Good	1–47
The complex of creole typological features: The case of Mauritian Creole Anthony P. Grant and Diana Guillemin	48–104
Which Mix — code-switching or a mixed language? — Gurindji Kriol Felicity Meakins	105–140
Review article
Language and gender in the Caribbean Reviewed by Jack Sidnell	141–157
Short notes
Papiamentu as one of the most complex languages in the world: A reply to Kouwenberg Mikael Parkvall	159–166
Rejoinder Silvia Kouwenberg	167–169
Guest column
Case closed? Testing the feature pool hypothesis John H. McWhorter	171–182
Book reviews
Review of Yip & Matthews (2007): The bilingual child: Early development and language contact Reviewed by Fredric Field	183–186
Review of Meyerhoff & Nagy (2008): Social lives in language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities. Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff Reviewed by Pieter Muysken	187–189
Review of Baker & Sing (2007): The making of Mauritian Creole. Analyses diachroniques à partir des textes anciens Reviewed by Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh	190–195
Review of Perekhvalskaya (2008): Russkie pidzhiny Reviewed by Dieter Stern	196–200
Review of Valdman, Rottet, Guidry, Klingler, LaFleur, Lindner, Picone & Ryon (2010): Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities Reviewed by Karin Speedy	201–204
Review of Eckardt, Jager & Veenstra (2008): Variation, selection, development: Probing the evolutionary model of language change Reviewed by Derek Bickerton	205–208

Subjects

Linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Historical linguistics

Contact Linguistics