Structure and Variation in Language Contact

1. Introduction (by Deumert, Ana); 2. Part I: Structure; 3. The phonetics of tone in Saramaccan (by Good, Jeff); 4. Tracing the origin of modality in the creoles of Suriname (by Migge, Bettina); 5. Modelling Creole Genesis: Headedness in morphology (by Veenstra, Tonjes); 6. The restructuring of tense/aspect systems in creole formation (by Winford, Donald); 7. Syntactic properties of negation in Chinook Jargon, with a comparison of two source languages (by Vrzic, Zvjezdana); 8. Sri Lankan Malay morphosyntax: Lankan or Malay? (by Slomanson, Peter); 9. Sri Lanka Malay: Creole or convert? (by Smith, Ian); 10. The advantages of a blockage-based etymological dictionary for proven or putative relexified languages: (Extrapolating from the Yiddish experience) (by Wexler, Paul); 11. Part II: Variation; 12. A fresh look at habitual be in AAVE (by Collins, Chris); 13. Oral narrative and tense in urban Bahamian Creole English (by Hackert, Stephanie); 14. Aspects of variation in educated Nigerian Pidgin: Verbal structures (by Deuber, Dagmar); 15. A linguistic time-capsule: Plural /s/ reduction in Afro-Portuguese and Afro-Hispanic historical texts (by Ferreira, Fernanda L.); 16. The progressive in the spoken Papiamentu of Aruba (by Sanchez, Tara); 17. Was Haitian ever more like French? (by Parkvall, Mikael); 18. The late transfer of serial verb constructions as stylistic variants in Saramaccan creole (by Kramer, Marvin); 19. Index