Pidgins and Creoles in Asia -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Chinese Pidgin Russian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sources and a brief history -- 2.1 Scholarship on CPR -- 2.2 Spelling norms and lexicon -- 3. Phonology -- 4. Morphology -- 4.1 Non-verbs -- 4.1.1 Pronouns -- 4.2 Verbs -- 4.3 Sentence-final particles -- 4.3.1 Tense/Aspect -- 4.3.2 Negation -- 5. Syntax -- 5.1 Basic word order -- 5.2 Thematic roles and syntactic functions -- 5.2.1 Agent/topic marker -- 5.2.2 Location/direction markers -- 5.2.3 Subject/object markers -- 5.3 NP word order -- 5.4 Word order in questions -- 5.5 Postpositions and prepositions -- 5.6 Comparatives -- 6. Vocabulary -- 6.1 Direct borrowings from languages other than Russian -- 6.2 Calques -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- China Coast Pidgin -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History of CCP -- 2.1 The British and Portuguese presence in Southern China -- 2.2 The Canton System -- 2.3 The nature of Chinese-Western contacts -- 2.4 Development and decay of CCP -- 3. CCP sources and previous scholarship -- 3.1 The Redhaired Glossary -- 3.2 The Instructor -- 3.3 Previous views on CCP -- 4. Grammar -- 4.1 Words and sounds -- 4.2 Nouns and NPs -- 4.3 Copulas, zeros and existence -- 4.4 Placement of adverbs and prepositional phrases -- 4.5 Tense and aspect -- 4.6 Wh-interrogatives in Chinese and Western sources -- 4.7 Topic-comment and discourse structure -- 4.8 The verb makee -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- African slave population of Portuguese India -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The relationship between the Asian and African creoles -- 1.2 The relationship between the Asian creoles and African languages -- 2. Africans in India prior to European colonial presence -- 3. Africans in India as a result of European colonial activities -- 3.1 Terminology in Portuguese documents.

3.2 Origins of the slaves -- 3.3 Demography -- 3.3.1 Goa -- 3.3.2 The Província do Norte -- 4. Discussion -- References -- Vestiges of etymological gender in Malacca Creole Portuguese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The language -- 3. The basis for the study -- 4. Framework for the discussion -- 5. Data and procedures -- 6. Vestigial etymological gender: derivational morphemes in MCP? -- 7. Does MCP have vestiges of contextual gender inflection? -- 8. The status of gender morphology in MCP -- 9. Did diglossia cease when the Dutch conquered Malacca? -- 10. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Bazaar Malay topics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Topic prominence -- 3. English-style topic structure -- 4. Chinese-style topic structure -- 5. Bare conditionals -- 6. Multiple topics and multiple comments -- 7. Comparing Topic prominence in Singapore English -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Index.