Issues in English Creoles -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- REFERENCES -- CREOLIZATION, LINGUISTIC UNIVERSALS, NATURAL SEMANTAX AND THE BRAIN -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE ADEQUACY OF CERTAIN THEORIES IN ACCOUNTING FOR IMPORTANT GRAMMATICAL RELATIONSHIPS IN A CREOLE LANGUAGE -- Concluding Remarks -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ON THE NOTION OF DECREOLIZATION AND ST. KITTS CREOLE PERSONAL PRONOUNS -- Evidence for a Creole Continuum in St. Kitts-Nevis -- Pronoun/Copuloid Co-occurrence -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE CREOLE SITUATION IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDIES -- The Problem: -- Grammatical Variables in Trinidad English -- The Sample and the Data -- Class and Style differentiation of the variables -- Differentiation of (ED): -- Differentiation of (DOES): -- Social Differentiation of (Z): -- Social Differentiation of (V-ING) -- Social Differentiation of (COP-A): -- Further conclusions on (V-ING) and (COP-A): -- Social Differentiation of (GO): -- Summary of Conclusions: -- Problem One: -- Problem Two: -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- HOW DOES DOZ DISAPPEAR? -- Introduction -- The d- undoing of doz -- PRECEDING SONORANTS (NASALS AND LIQUIDS) -- PRECEDING OBSTRUENTS (STOPS AND FRICATIVES) -- PRECEDING VOWELS -- Loss of the Vowel in (d)oz: -- The final disappearance of doz -- Concluding Remarks -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- FROM PREPOSITION TO COMPLEMENTIZER IN CARIBBEAN ENGLISH CREOLE -- The History of fi -- Discussion -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- A CREOLE ENGLISH CONTINUUM AND THE THEORY OF GRAMMAR -- Abstract -- Introduction: -- 2. Non-existence, deletion, and variable representation -- 3. The minimal SVO sentence -- 4. Hypotheses towards a grammar -- REFERENCES -- BAHAMIAN ENGLISH--A NON-CONTINUUM? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Related Studies -- 3. Bahamian Background -- 4. The Language Situation -- 5. Syntax -- 6.1. Phonology.

7. The Bahamian Continuum -- 8. The Black Language Continuum -- 9. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SUFFICIENCY CONDITIONS FOR A PRIOR CREOLIZATION OF BLACK ENGLISH -- Relative Clause Reduction -- Negation -- There Insertion -- Inversion in Questions and Negation -- Copular Constructions -- Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- LEXICALIZATION IN BLACK ENGLISH -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MODELS OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIATION -- 2.1. The variable rule model -- 2.2. The implicational wave model -- 3. MODELS OF GRAMMAR RESTRUCTURING -- 4. A METHODOLOGICAL NOTE -- 5. GROUP VS. INDIVIDUAL ANALYSIS -- 6. IMPLICATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS -- 6.1. Auxiliary vs. Main Verb Have -- 6.2. Affirmative vs. Negative Auxiliary Do -- 6.3. Regular vs. Irregular Verbs -- 7. LEXICALIZATION -- 8. FURTHER EVIDENCE OF LEXICALIZATION: I'M -- 9. FURTHER EVIDENCE OF LEXICALIZATION: POSSESSIVE MARKING -- 10. LINGUISTIC AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF LEXICALIZATION -- 11. CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- LIST OF PAPERS PRESENTED.