Overview

This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's 65th birthday and honour his career. Each author in the volume is a noted scholar in linguistics and has professionally or personally interacted with Bickerton and been influenced by his work. While the papers make independent thematic contributions, they also discuss, argument, present alternatives to, or are inspired in some way by Bickerton's ideas or analyses. The book is organized into five sections, each a reflection of a major research period in Bickerton's career.

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Author:   Francis Byrne ,  Thom Huebner ,  Thom Huebner
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   9
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9789027252296

ISBN 10:   9027252297
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   15 March 1991
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. Contents; 3. Introduction: Innovation and Excellence within a Scholary Tradition (by Byrne, Francis); 4. 1. Identifying Creoles; 5. St Helena English (by Hancock, Ian F.); 6. American Indian English: A Phylogenetic Dilemma (by Bartelt, H. Guillermo); 7. 2. Language Variation; 8. Style, Status, Change: Three Sociolinguistic Axioms (by Preston, Dennis R.); 9. Using the Future o Explain the Past (by Sankoff, Gillian); 10. Decreolization or Dialect Contact in Haiti? (by Valdman, Albert); 11. 3. Creole Processes; 12. From Botany to Creolistics: The Contribution of the Lexicon on the Flora to the Debate on Indian Ocean creole Genesis (by Chaudenson, Robert); 13. Ndjuka Organisation of Experience: African or Universal? (by Huttar, George L.); 14. A Reexamination of Bickerton's Phylogenesis Hypothesis (by Black, Mary C.); 15. 4. Creole Syntax and Semantics; 16. Pidgins, Creoles, Typology, and Markedness (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.); 17. The Binding Theory and Creolization: Evidence from 18th Century Negerhollands Reflexives (by Muysken, Pieter); 18. On the Copula in Mauritian Creole, Past and Present (by Baker, Philip); 19. 5. Serial Verbs; 20. Serialization in Creole Oral Discourse (by Escure, Genevieve); 21. The Definition of Serial Verbs (by Seuren, Pieter A.M.); 22. Approaches to 'Missing Internal (and External) Arguments in Serial Structure: Some Presumed Difficulties (by Byrne, Francis)

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