Intro -- Creole Studies - Phylogenetic Approaches -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Key concepts in the history of creole studies -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Creole studies -- 2.3 Issues in creole studies -- 2.3.1 General characteristics -- 2.3.2 Sociohistory of creoles and creolization -- 2.3.3 Development: Pidgin stage or not -- 2.3.4 Influences from input languages -- 2.3.5 Complexity of Creoles -- 2.3.6 Creators of creoles -- 2.3.7 Gradual or quick -- 2.3.8 Location -- 2.3.9 Reasons for perceived similarities -- 2.3.10 Semantics -- 2.4 Research on creole languages and the contributions to this book -- References -- Chapter 3. Phylogenetics in biology and linguistics -- 3.1 Origin of phylogenetics in biology and linguistics -- 3.2 Phylogenetic studies in linguistics -- 3.3 Dated language phylogenies -- 3.4 Is linguistic evolution tree-like? -- 3.5 Other lateral influences between biology and linguistics -- 3.6 Creoles, stable features and their substrates and lexifiers -- 3.7 Creoles and genetic affiliation: Stammbaum, convergence, contact -- 3.8 A cognitive account of creole genesis -- 3.9 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4. Methods: On the use of networks in the study of language contactOn the use of networks in the study of language contact -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Steps of analysis: Encoding, representation, and interpretation -- 4.3 Data types -- 4.3.1 Lexical data -- 4.3.2 Typological data -- 4.4 Data coding -- 4.5 Networks and trees -- 4.6 Interpreting the results -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5. Creole typology I: Comparative overview of creole languages -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Phonology -- 5.2.1 Creole segmental inventories -- 5.2.2 Creole phonotactics -- 5.2.3 Creole suprasegmentals -- 5.2.4 Summary of Creole phonology -- 5.3 Creole morphology. 5.3.1 Inflectional morphology -- 5.3.2 Compounding and derivational morphology, reduplication, compounding, suppletion -- 5.3.3 Creole morphology: summary -- 5.4 Creole constituent order -- 5.4.1 Sentential constituent order -- 5.4.2 Verb phrase word order -- 5.4.3 Serial verbs -- 5.4.4 Ditransitive constructions -- 5.4.5 Noun phrase word order -- 5.4.6 Attributive possession -- 5.4.7 Predicative possession -- 5.4.8 Summary: Creole constituent order -- 5.5 The creole lexicon -- 5.5.1 The lexicon: Mixedness -- 5.5.2 The lexicon: Quantity of roots and words -- 5.5.3 Expansion of the lexicon -- 5.5.4 Substrate -- 5.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6. Creole typology II: Typological features of creoles: From early proposals to phylogenetic approaches and comparisons with non-creolesTypological features of creoles: From early proposals to phylogenetic approaches and comparisons with non-creol -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Claims about typological properties of creoles, 1950s-2000s -- 6.2.1 Taylor (1971) -- 6.2.2 Markey (1982) -- 6.2.3 Bickerton (1981, 1984) -- 6.2.4 Baker (2001) -- 6.2.5 Muysken & -- Law (2001) -- 6.2.6 Holm & -- Patrick (2007) -- 6.2.7 Szmrecsanyi & -- Kortmann (2009) -- 6.2.8 Cysouw (2009) -- 6.2.9 Mauritian Creole and proposed creole features (Grant & -- Guillemin 2012) -- 6.2.9 Mauritian Creole and proposed creole features (Grant & -- Guillemin 2012) -- 6.2.10 Summary of structural overviews and conclusions -- 6.3 Mass comparisons of creoles and non-creoles -- 6.3.1 Holm & -- Patrick's creole sample among the languages of the world -- 6.3.2 WALS features: Non-creoles and creoles -- 6.3.3 WALS features and APiCS features compared -- 6.3.4 The four WALS features that set creoles apart from non-creoles -- 6.3.5 Surinamese creoles, the lexifiers and the Gbe and Kikongo substrates -- 6.3.6 Summary mass comparisons. 6.4 Diachrony and creoles -- 6.4.1 Pidgins -- 6.4.2 Grammaticalization -- 6.4.3 Phonological processes -- 6.4.4 Speed of change -- 6.4.5 Summary: Change -- 6.5 Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Chapter 7. West African languages and creoles worldwide -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Stable features -- 7.3 Methods and sampling -- 7.4 African languages and their connections -- 7.5 West African languages and Atlantic creoles -- 7.6 West African languages and Asian creoles -- 7.7 Creoles and their lexifiers -- 7.8 Transmission of stable features in creoles and non-creoles -- 7.9 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8. The typology and classification of French-based creoles: The typology and classification of French-based creoles: A global perspective -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Previous work on the classification of French-based creoles -- 8.3 Methods and sample -- 8.4 Classifying French-based creoles -- 8.5 Measuring radicalness -- 8.6 Discussion -- 8.7 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9. The simple emerging from the complex: Nominal number in Juba Arabic creole -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Theoretical preliminaries -- 9.2.1 The Feature Pool Hypothesis -- 9.2.2 Creole distinctiveness -- 9.2.3 Hypotheses -- 9.3 Methodological preliminaries -- 9.3.1 Phylogenetic trees and linguistics -- 9.3.2 Sample -- 9.3.3 The data -- 9.4 The pool of features -- 9.4.1 Number affixing -- 9.4.2 Number and noun stems -- 9.4.3 Collectives -- 9.4.4 Other types of number inflection of nouns -- 9.4.5 Pronominal number -- 9.4.6 Number agreement -- 9.5 Phylogenetic analysis -- 9.6 Theoretical implications and questions for further research -- 9.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10. Dutch creoles compared with their lexifier -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 18th-Century Virgin Islands Creole Dutch and 20th-Century Virgin Islands Creole Dutch. 10.3 Berbice Creole -- 10.4 Skepi Dutch Creole -- 10.5 The Dutch creoles: Lexical comparison -- 10.5.1 Origin of the roots -- 10.5.2 Comparison of the Dutch roots -- 10.5.3 Phonotactics of Dutch and Ijo words in Dutch creoles -- 10.6 Typological comparison -- 10.6.1 Three varieties of Virgin Islands Creole Dutch and Berbice Creole -- 10.6.2 Skepi, Berbice, and 20th-Century Virgin Islands Creole Dutch: Grammatical traits -- 10.7 Conclusions -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 11. Similarities and differences among Iberian creoles: Similarities and differences among Iberian creoles -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Methods -- 11.3 Previous classifications -- 11.3.1 Early studies -- 11.3.2 Atlantic and Asian creoles -- 11.3.3 Local developments -- 11.4 Language sample -- 11.5 Feature data -- 11.6 Areal clusters -- 11.7 Shared features -- 11.8 Areal differences -- 11.9 Discussion -- 11.10 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12. Afro-Hispanic varieties in comparison: New light from phylogeny -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Afro-Hispanic varieties -- 12.3 Sample and methodology -- 12.4 Results of the phylogenetic network analysis -- 12.5 Discussion of classifications and characteristic traits -- 12.6 Reflections on the method -- 12.7 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Appendix 12.1 Feature lists -- Chapter 13. Cognitive creolistics and semantic primes: A phylogenetic network analysis -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Exponents of semantic primes across creole languages -- 13.2.1 Materials -- 13.3 Character coding and phylogenetic algorithm -- 13.4 Results -- 13.5 Discussion -- 13.6 Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 14. Lexicalization patterns in core vocabulary: A cross-creole study of semantic molecules -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Creoles, lexifiers, and semantic domains -- 14.3 Words and coding. 14.4 Results -- 14.4.1 Abstract concepts -- 14.4.2 Social molecules -- 14.4.3 Body-part molecules -- 14.4.4 Environmental molecules -- 14.5 Discussion -- 14.6 Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 15. The semantics of Englishes and Creoles: Pacific and Australian perspectives -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 The "language" concept and its critics -- 15.3 Words and coding -- 15.4 Results -- 15.4.1 The Australia-Pacific Network -- 15.4.2 A case study in 'people' -- 15.5 Discussion -- 15.6 Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 16. Feature pools show that creoles are distinct languages due to their special origin -- References -- Chapter 17. Complementing creole studies with phylogenetics: Complementing creole studies with phylogenetics -- References -- Chapter 18. From basic to cultural semantics: Postcolonial futures for a cognitive creolistics -- References -- Chapter 19. Linguistics and evolutionary biology continue to cross-fertilize each other and may do so even more in the future, including in the field of creolistics: Linguistics and evolutionary biology continue to cross-fertilize each other and may do so -- References -- Chapter 20. Epilogue: Of theories, typology and empirical data -- References -- Languages index -- People index -- Places index -- Subject index.
This book launches a new approach to creole studies founded on phylogenetic network analysis. Creole languages are new languages that developed in extraordinary language contact situations.