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"Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko Mufwene aims to celebrate Mufwene's ground-breaking contribution to linguistics in the past four decades. The title also encapsulates his approach to language as both systemic and socio-cultural practices, and the role of variation in determining particular evolutionary trajectories in specific linguistic ecologies. The book therefore focuses on variation within and across languages, within and across speakers, and how this fundamental aspect of human behavior can affect language structure in time and space. Mufwene has been instrumental in putting creole languages on the map of General Linguistics and connecting their analysis to issues of language acquisition, multilingualism, language contact, language evolution, and language typology. Thanks to the diversity of topics and the wide-ranging theoretical persuasions of the contributors, this volume aims at a large readership including both scholars and advanced students interested in cutting-edge research in the aforementioned domains"--

Creole dialects. --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Languages, Mixed --- Pidgin languages

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Basic notions in the field of creole studies, including the category of "creole languages" itself, have been questioned in recent years: Can creoles be defined on structural or on purely sociohistorical grounds? Can creolization be understood as a graded process, possibly resulting in different degrees of "radicalness" and intermediate language types ("semi-creoles")? If so, by which linguistic structures are these characterized, and by which extralinguistic conditions have they been brought about? Which are the linguistic mechanisms underlying processes of restructuring, and how did grammatic

Creolan languages --- Creole dialects --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Languages, Mixed --- Pidgin languages --- History.

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Creole dialects --- Noun phrase. --- Syntax. --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Noun phrase --- Syntax --- Languages, Mixed --- Pidgin languages

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Creole dialects --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Languages, Mixed --- Pidgin languages --- Noun phrase. --- Syntax.

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The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, but also, in a much broader sense, the many other phenomena and processes found in these languages which serve to highlight sentence-level elements.The book is organized into five sections: 1. verb focus, predicate clefting and predicate doubling; 2. focus and anti-focus; 3. focus and pronominals; 4. discourse patterning; 5. grammatical relations.

Creolan languages --- Grammar --- Langues créoles anglaises --- Langues créoles --- Creole dialects --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Languages, Mixed --- Pidgin languages --- Grammar.