Table of Contents

Introduction
Portuguese-based Languages
1: Jürgen Lang: Cape Verdean Creole of Santiago
2: Marlyse Baptista: Cape Verdean Creole of Brava
3: Dominika Swolkien: Cape Verdean Creole of São Vicente
4: Incanha Intumbo, Liliana Inverno, and John Holm: Guinea-Bissau Kriyol
5: Noël Bernard Biagui and Nicolas Quint: Casamancese Creole
6: Tjerk Hagemeijer: Santome
7: Philippe Maurer: Angolar
8: Philippe Maurer: Principense
9: Mark Post: Fa d'Ambô
10: Hugo C. Cardoso: Diu Indo-Portuguese
11: Clancy Clements: Korlai
12: Ian R. Smith: Sri lanka Portuguese
13: Alan B. Baxter: Papiá Kristang
14: Philippe Maurer: Batavia Creole
Spanish-based Languages
15: Eeva Sippola: Ternate Chabacano
16: Eeva Sippola: Cavite Chabacano
17: Patrick O. Steinkrüger: Zamboanga Chabacano
18: Philippe Maurer: Papiamentu
19: Armin Schwegler: Palenquero
French-based Languages
20: Doninique Fattier: Haitian Creole
21: Serge Colot and Ralph Ludwig: Guadeloupean Creole and Martinican Creole
22: Stefan Pfänder: Guyanais
23: Thomas A. Klingler and Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh: Louisiana Creole
24: Annegret Bollée: Reunion Creole
25: Philip Baker and Sibylle Kriegel: Mauritian Creole
26: Susanne Michaelis and marcel Rosalie: Seychelles Creole
27: Sabine Ehrhart and Melanie Revis: Tayo
Language Index

About the Author

Susanne Maria Michaelis is is currently a creolist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Between 2008 and 2011, she held a researcher position in the APiCS project at the University of Gießen. Her early work focused on French-based Indian Ocean creoles, in particular Seychelles Creole (Temps et aspect en créole seychellois, 1993; Komplexe Syntax im Seychellen-Kreol, 1994). She is also editor of
Roots of Creole Structures (Benjamins, 2008) and coeditor of the anthology Contact Languages: Critical concepts in linguistics (Routledge, 2008). Philippe Maurer is a creolist working on Ibero-Romance based creoles, mainly on Papiamentu
(Les modifications temporelles et modales du verbe dans le papiamento de Curaçao, 1988) and on the Gulf of Guinea Creoles (L'angolar: un créole afro-portugais parlé à São Tomé, 1995, and Principense. Grammar, texts, and vocabulary, 2009. A book on the extinct Portuguese based Creole of Batavia and Tugu (Indonesia) will appear in 2011. Martin Haspelmath is senior scientist at the Max Planck Institut for Evolutionary
Anthropology and Honorary Professor at the University of Leipzig. His research interests are primarily in the area of broadly comparative and diachronic morphosyntax (e.g. Indefinite Pronouns, OUP 1997) and in language contact (Loanwords in the World's Languages, co-edited with
UriTadmor, de Gruyter 2009). He is co-editor with Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie, of The World Atlas of Language Structures (OUP 2005). Magnus Huber is Professor of English at the University of Giessen and an expert on English-based pidgins and creoles. He authored Ghanaian Pidgin English in its West African Context (Benjamins 1999), and edited Spreading the word. The issue of diffusion among the Atlantic Creoles (University of Westminster Press 1999)
and Synchronic and diachronic perspectives on contact languages (Benjamins 2007). His research interests include world Englishes, historical sociolinguistics, dialectology, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics.

Reviews

This set will be an indispensable reference for anyone studying or working in this field; it is the only work of its type... Essential. Choice [T]he Survey is a success. Claire Lefebvre, Studies in Language