Language Change in Contact Languages
Grammatical and prosodic considerations
Special Issue of Studies in Language volume 33:2 (2009)

Edited by J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden
Indiana University / University of Pittsburgh

Studies in Language 33:2

2009. 250 pp.

Table of contents

Obituary 257–258

Language change in contact languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations:
An introduction
J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden 259–276

Articles

The contribution of relexification, grammaticalisation, and reanalysis to creole
genesis and development
Claire Lefebvre 277–311

Grammaticalization in creoles: Ordinary and not-so-ordinary cases
Adrienne Bruyn 312–337

One in Singapore English
Bao Zhiming 338–365

Contact-induced grammaticalization: Evidence from bilingual acquisition
Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip 366–395

Tone inventories and tune-text alignments: Prosodic variation in ‘hybrid’
prosodic systems
Shelome Gooden, Kathy-Ann Drayton and Mary Beckman 396–436

Subsystem interface and tone typology in Papiamentu
Yolanda Rivera-Castillo 437–458

A twice-mixed creole? Tracing the history of a prosodic split in the Saramaccan
lexicon
Jeff Good 459–498