Creoles, contact, and language change : linguistics and social implications

 Content: 1. Preface, pvii-x; 2. 1. The origins of Macanese reduplication (by Ansaldo, Umberto), p1-19; 3. 2. Court records as a source of authentic early Sranan (by Berg, Margot van den), p21-34; 4. 3. Garifuna in Belize and Honduras (by Escure, Genevieve), p35-65; 5. 4. The Nova Scotia-Sierra Leone connection: New evidence on an early variety of African American Vernacular English in the diaspora (by Huber, Magnus), p67-95; 6. 5. The development of variable NP plural agreement in a restructured African variety of Portuguese (by Baxter, Alan N.), p97-126; 7. 6. Second language acquisition in creole genesis: The role of processability (by Field, Fredric), p127-160; 8. 7. OT and the acquisition of Jamaican syllable structure (by Meade, Rocky R.), p161-188; 9. 8. Double-object constructions in two French-based creoles (Morisyen and Seselwa) (by Adone, Dany), p189-208; 10. 9. Passive voice in Papiamento: A corpus-based study on dialectal variability (by Eckkrammer, Eva Martha), p209-219; 11. 10. Tone assignment on lexical items of English and African origin in Krio (by Finney, Malcolm Awadajin), p221-236; 12. 11. TMA and the St. Lucian Creole verb phrase (by Frank, David B.), p237-257; 13. 12. The Limonese calypso as an identity marker (by Herzfeld, Anita), p259-284; 14. 13. The speech event kuutu in the Eastern Maroon community (by Migge, Bettina), p285-306; 15. 14. Reflexivity in French-based creoles (by Mutz, Katrin), p307-329; 16. 15. The role of style and identity in the development of Hawaiian Creole (by Roberts, Sarah J.), p331-350; 17. Index, p351-354