Philip Baker | John Benjamins

Baker, Philip 2009 Productive bimorphemic structures and the concept of gradual creolization Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends, Selbach, Rachel, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg (eds.), pp. 27–53 | Article

In pidgin and creole (P/C) studies, ‘bimorphemic’ is normally associated with bimorphemic interrogatives (‘question words’). I demonstrate that these are merely part of a wider range of bimorphemic structures which play an important vocabulary-building role in P/Cs. I then discuss Arends’ (1989)… read more

Baker, Philip and Magnus Huber 2001 Atlantic, Pacific, and world-wide features in English-lexicon contact languages English World-Wide 22:2, pp. 157–208 | Article

This article analyzes the earliest known attestations of 302 lexical, functional, and grammatical features in 13 English-lexicon contact languages in the Atlantic and the Pacific. The main aims are (i) to shed light on the historical relationships between the individual varieties, (ii) to learn… read more

Baker, Philip 2000 Chris Corne 1942–1999 Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 15:1, pp. 155–158 | Miscellaneous

Baker, Philip 2000 Theories of creolization and the degree and nature of restructuring Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages, Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.), pp. 41–64 | Article

Baker, Philip 1997 Directionality in pidginization and creolization The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics, Spears, Arthur K. and Donald Winford (eds.), pp. 91–110 | Article

Baker, Philip 1996 Pidginization, Creolization, and Français Approximatif Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 11:1, pp. 95–120 | Article

Baker, Philip 1996 Some Development Interferences from the Historical Studies of Pidgins and Creoles The Early Stages of Creolization, Arends, Jacques (ed.), pp. 1–24 | Article

Baker, Philip 1994 Review of Mesthrie (1991): Language in indenture. A sociolinguistic history of Bhojpuri-Hindi in South Africa Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9:1, pp. 168–172 | Review

Baker, Philip 1991 Writing the Wronged Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 6:1, pp. 107–122 | Miscellaneous

Baker, Philip 1991 Causes and Effects Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 6:2, pp. 267–278 | Miscellaneous

Baker, Philip and Anand Syea 1991 On the Copula in Mauritian Creole, Past and Present Development and Structures of Creole Languages: Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton, Byrne, Francis and Thom Huebner (eds.), pp. 159 ff. | Article

Baker, Philip 1990 Pacific Reorientations Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 5:2, pp. 253–269 | Miscellaneous

Baker, Philip 1990 Off Target? Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 5:1, pp. 107–119 | Miscellaneous

Baker, Philip 1987 Historical Developments in Chinese Pidgin English and the Nature of the Relationships Between the Various Pidgin Englishes of the Pacific Region Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 2:2, pp. 163–207 | Article

The development of pronouns, copulas, and other key features of Chinese Pidgin English (CPE) is traced from 1743 onwards. Major grammatical and lexical changes in the early 19th century are found to coincide with the period when foreigners were increasingly allowed to reside in Canton instead of… read more

Baker, Philip and Chris Corne 1986 Universals, Substrata and the Indian Ocean Creoles Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985, Muysken, Pieter and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 163 ff. | Article