History, Society And Variation In Honor of Albert Valdman Book

	Louisiana Creole at the periphery	11
	Using and interpreting historical texts to analyze the formation and development of Creole languages	29
	Lexical aspects of French and Creole in Saint-Domingue at the end of the eighteenth century	47
	The lexicalization - grammaticalization continuum	77
	Creole transplantation : a source of solutions to resistant anomalies	103
	Creoles, capitalism, and colonialism	137
	A curiosity of Mauritian Creole : numerical slang	153
	Theoretical and practical conditions for the emergence of a koine among French-lexified Creole languages	163
	French in Haiti : contacts and conflicts between linguistic representations	179
	Albert Valdman on the development of Creoles	203
	Diatopic variation in Haitian Creole	225
	Interrogative pronouns in Louisiana Creole and the multiple genesis hypothesis	235
	Gender in French Creoles : the story of a loser	251
	Tense, mood, and aspect and the Deixis ordering principle	273