Creoles, Revisited

This innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture in sociohistorical contact.

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Nicholas G. Faraclas is a Professor in Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

Sally J. Delgado is a certified teacher and Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus.

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Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Post-colonial Linguistics and Post-creole Creolistics

Nicholas G. Faraclas and Sally J. Delgado

Chapter 2: A Subaltern Overview of Early Colonial Contact in the Afro-Atlantic: Renegades, Maroons and the Sugar Story

Nicholas G. Faraclas

Chapter 3: Sociohistorical Matrices for the Emergence of Afro-Atlantic 'Creoles' and other pre-1800 Colonial Era Contact Repertoires and Varieties

Nicholas G. Faraclas and Sally J. Delgado

Chapter 4: Renegades, Raiders, Loggers and Traders in the Early Colonial Contact Zones of the Western Caribbean

Sally J. Delgado

Chapter 5: 'Arawak', 'Carib' and 'Garifuna': Indigenous Trans-/Pluri-linguality versus Imperial Myth-making in the Afro-Atlantic

Fernando Y. Alvarado Benítez and Nicholas G. Faraclas

Chapter 6: Jamaican Maroon Spirit Language, Krio and Cryptolect

Ian Hancock

Chapter 7: Conceptual Construal, Convergence and the Creole Lexicon

Micah Corum