The missing Spanish creoles: recovering the birth of plantation contact languages

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Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Where Are the Spanish Creoles? 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, and Mexico 2.3. There Are Spanish Papiamentu and Palenquero 2.4. There Were Spanish Bozal Spanish and the Extinct Pan-Hispanic 2.5. There Will Turn Out to Be Spanish 2.6. Accommodating the Theory to the Data: Societes d'Habitations versus Plantations 2.7. The Spanish as Kinder, Gentler Colonizers 2.8. Nothing Is at Issue: The Argument 2.9. Conclusion 3. The Atlantic English-Based Creoles: Sisters Under the Skin 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Methodology 3.3. The Features 3.4. A Closer Look 3.5. Implications 3.6. Sociohistorical Evidence 3.7. Summary 4. The Creationist at a Cocktail Party: Afrogenesis and the Atlantic English-Based Creoles 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Dating the Emergence of Sranan 4.3. A Theoretical Anomaly 4.4. Barbados? 4.5. West African Trade Settlements 4.6. The Cormantin Castle 4.7. Linguistic Evidence for the Cormantin Scenario 4.8. Preserving the Paradigm 4.9. Hancock's Domestic Hypothesis 4.10. Conclusion 5. Off the Plantation for Good: The French-Based Creoles 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Linguistic Data 5.3. Sociohistorical Evidence 5.5. Exploring Other Perspectives 5.6. The Portuguese Creoles 5.7. The Dutch Question 5.8. Conclusion 6. Synthesis 6.1. Geocentrism and Creole Studies 6.2. The Afrogenesis Hypothesis: Fundamental Outline 6.3. The Afrogenesis Hypothesis: Elaboration 6.4. The Afrogenesis Hypothesis: Problems Become Predictions 6.5. The Afrogenesis Hypothesis: Changing the Lens 6.6. The Case-by-Case Argument 6.7. The Reality of the Paradigm 7. Conclusion 7.1. The Middle Ground 7.2. The Domain of the Afrogenesis Hypothesis 7.3. Standards of Evaluation 7.4. Curtain References Index

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