This volume offers a thorough examination of the syntactic,
semantic, pragmatic and discourse properties of noun phrases in
a wide variety of creole (and non-creole) languages including
Cape Verdean Creole, Santome, Papiamentu, Guinea-Bissau Creole,
Mindanao Chabacano, Réunionnais Creole, Lesser Antillean,
Haitian Creole, Mauritian Creole, Seychellois, Sranan, Jamaican
Creole, Berbice Dutch Creole and African American English.
Comparative studies also consider the determiner systems of
Middle and Modern French, European Portuguese, Brazilian
Portuguese, Spanish, Ewe, Fon and Gun. This compilation of 16
chapters brings together descriptive, theoretical, diachronic
and synchronic studies that focus on the structure and
interpretation of bare nouns in creoles. The contributions
demonstrate the variety and complex nature of determiner systems
in creoles and their widespread use of bare nouns in comparison
to their source languages. This volume is evidence of the
relevance of creole languages to theories of langua