TY - BOOK ID - 68552586 TI - Functional categories in three Atlantic creoles PY - 2015 SN - 9789027252746 9027252742 9789027268259 9027268258 PB - Amsterdam, Netherlands Philadelphia, PA DB - UniCat KW - Creole dialects KW - Languages in contact KW - Bilingualism KW - Minimalist theory (Linguistics). KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Saramaccan language. KW - Haitian. KW - Papiamentu. KW - Caribbean Area. KW - Minimalist theory (Linguistics) KW - Language and languages KW - Language and society KW - Society and language KW - Sociology of language KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Sociology KW - Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) KW - Generative grammar KW - Multilingualism KW - Creole languages KW - Creolized languages KW - Languages, Mixed KW - Pidgin languages KW - Areal linguistics KW - Social aspects KW - Sociological aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68552586 AB - This chapter discusses the material presented in this book organized around the various themes announced in the Introduction, and it addresses questions and comments pertinent to the issues related to these themes. The first theme to be addressed is the question of the similarity between the subsystems of functional categories between the three creoles. The second theme relates to the processes at work in the formation of the functional categories of these three creoles. Relabeling, grammaticalization and leveling will be discussed in turn. A discussion of phenomena, such as restructuring and ER -