From Contact to Creole and Beyond

according adjective African agglutinated nominals appear arrived aspect attested Baker Caribbean Cayenne century colony combination communication considered constructions context Corne créole Creole French Creole languages creolization definite derived discussion Dutch early emerged English European example existence expressed fact forms France given hand important Indian indicates influence island Isle Krio later least less lexicon linguistic Louis Louisiana marked marker Martinique Mauritian meaning mentioned native noted nouns occur origin Paris person pidgin plantation population Portuguese position possessive possible predicate present Press probably pronoun question reference relative result Saint-Christophe seems sentence ships shows similar situation slaves speakers speaking spoken St Kitts structure suggests synthetic genitives Table Tayo term texts University usually varieties verb West