Acknowledgements | |
Abbreviations | |
Maps | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
A sociohistorical account of Pidgins on the Gold Coast | p. 9 |
Excursus: The settlement of the Sierra Leone peninsula, 1787-1850 | p. 59 |
Tbe origin and development of West African Pidgin Englishes: linguistic data | p. 75 |
The sociolinguistics of Ghanaian Pidgin English | p. 135 |
A synchronic-structural description of Ghanaian Pidgin English | p. 165 |
Conclusion | p. 253 |
Appendices | p. 257 |
References to Portuguese and "Lingua Franca" as early West African contact languages | p. 257 |
Portuguese-derived words in use on the Gold Coast | p. 266 |
A chronological list identifying data sources of Table 4.1 | p. 269 |
Ghanaian Pidgin English texts | p. 271 |
References | p. 287 |
Index | p. 305 |
The CD: system requirements | p. 319 |
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