1st Edition
Creoles, Revisited Language Contact, Language Change, and Postcolonial Linguistics
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Post-colonial Linguistics and Post-creole Creolistics
Nicholas G. Faraclas and Sally J. Delgado
Chapter 2: A Subaltern Overview of Early Colonial Contact in the Afro-Atlantic: Renegades, Maroons and the Sugar Story
Nicholas G. Faraclas
Chapter 3: Sociohistorical Matrices for the Emergence of Afro-Atlantic ‘Creoles’ and other pre-1800 Colonial Era Contact Repertoires and Varieties
Nicholas G. Faraclas and Sally J. Delgado
Chapter 4: Renegades, Raiders, Loggers and Traders in the Early Colonial Contact Zones of the Western Caribbean
Sally J. Delgado
Chapter 5: ‘Arawak’, ‘Carib’ and ‘Garifuna’: Indigenous Trans-/Pluri-linguality versus Imperial Myth-making in the Afro-Atlantic
Fernando Y. Alvarado Benítez and Nicholas G. Faraclas
Chapter 6: Jamaican Maroon Spirit Language, Krio and Cryptolect
Ian Hancock
Chapter 7: Conceptual Construal, Convergence and the Creole Lexicon
Micah Corum
Biography
Nicholas G. Faraclas is a Professor in Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.
Sally J. Delgado is a certified teacher and Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus.
