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Saramaccan has been central to various debates regarding the origin and nature of creole languages. Being the most removed of all English-based creoles from European language structure in terms of phonology, morphology and syntax, it has been seen as one of the most extreme instantiations of the creolization process. This is the first full-length description of Saramaccan. The grammar documents, in particular, a valence-sensitive system of indicating movement and direction via serial verb constructions, hitherto overlooked amidst the generalized phenomenon of serialization itself.

Creolan languages --- Grammar --- Suriname --- Saramaccan language --- Creole dialects --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Languages, Mixed --- Pidgin languages --- Creole dialects, English --- Saramaccan language. --- Creole dialects. --- Creole Language. --- Grammar. --- Language Change. --- Language Contact. --- Saramaccan.

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This is a new contribution to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. Reiteration is meant to denote any situation where the same form occurs (at least) twice within the boundaries of some linguistic domain. By including two case studies bearing on Hebrew and Breton alongside five chapters on creole languages (Surinam creole, Haitian, Mauritian, São Tomé and Pitchi), this volume brings counter-evidence to the claim that reiteration phenomena are particularly typical of creoles. And by exploring the syntax of reiteration alongside its morphology

Creolan languages --- Grammar --- Dialectology --- Creole dialects --- Repetition (Rhetoric) --- Langues créoles --- Répétition (Rhétorique) --- Morphosyntax --- Morphology --- Syntax --- Morphosyntaxe --- Morphologie --- Syntaxe --- Creole dialects -- Morphology. --- Creole dialects -- Morphosyntax. --- Creole dialects -- Syntax. --- Repetition (Rhetoric). --- Morphosyntax. --- Morphology. --- Syntax. --- Langues créoles --- Répétition (Rhétorique) --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- Languages, Mixed --- Pidgin languages

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Mindanao Chabacano owes many of its features (including over 10% of its basic and more of its non-basic lexicon) to the influence of Philippine languages, and some of its typological features, such as the basic VSO constituent order, typify Philippine languages but atypical of Ibero-Asian creoles as a whole. Its sizeable component of basic Philippine-derived vocabulary and its incorporation of structural features which cannot be traced back simply to Spanish, allow us to classify it as a mixed creole. In this paper I examine the extent to which various structural features of Mindanao Creole Sp

Dialectology --- Comparative linguistics --- Creolan languages --- Spanish language --- Portuguese language --- Asian languages --- Creole dialects --- Creole dialects, Portuguese --- Creole dialects, Spanish --- Languages in contact --- Iberian language --- Comparative philology --- Philology, Comparative --- Historical linguistics --- Areal linguistics --- Spanish Creole languages --- Portuguese Creole languages --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Languages, Mixed --- Pidgin languages

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This study embarks on the intriguing quest for the origins of the Caribbean creole language Papiamentu. In the literature on the issue, widely diverging hypotheses have been advanced, but scholars have not come close to a consensus. The present study casts new and long-lasting light on the issue, putting forward compelling interdisciplinary evidence that Papiamentu is genetically related to the Portuguese-based creoles of the Cape Verde Islands, Guinea-Bissau, and Casamance (Senegal). Following the trans-Atlantic transfer of native speakers to Curaçao in the latter half of the 17th century, the Portuguese-based proto-variety underwent a far-reaching process of relexification towards Spanish, affecting the basic vocabulary while leaving intact the original phonology, morphology, and syntax. Papiamentu is thus shown to constitute a case of 'language contact reduplicated' in that a creole underwent a second significant restructuring process (relexification). These explicit claims and their rigorous underpinning will set standards for both the study of Papiamentu and creole studies at large and will be received with great interest in the wider field of contact linguistics.

Sociolinguistics --- Creolan languages --- Caribbean area --- Papiamentu --- Creole dialects --- Language and education --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Educational linguistics --- Education --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Languages, Mixed --- Pidgin languages --- Curaçoleño language --- Curassese language --- Papago language (Lesser Antilles) --- Papaimento language --- Papamiento language --- Papiam language --- Papiamen language --- Papiamento --- Papiamentoe language --- History. --- Etymology. --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Applied Linguistics. --- Creole Languages. --- Historical Linguistics. --- Language Change. --- Language Contact. --- Romance Languages.