Table of Contents

1. List of contributors; 2. List of standard abbreviations; 3. Preface; 4. 1. The problem of multiple substrates: The case of Jamaican Creole (by Kouwenberg, Silvia); 5. 2. The superstrate is not always the lexifier: Lingua Franca in the Barbary Coast 1530-1830 (by Selbach, Rachel); 6. 3. In praise of the cafeteria principle: Language mixing in Hawai'i Creole (by Siegel, Jeff); 7. 4. Tense marking and inflectional morphology in Indo-Portuguese creoles (by Luis, Ana R.); 8. 5. Vowel epenthesis and creole syllable structure (by Uffmann, Christian); 9. 6. The origin of the Portuguese words in Saramaccan: Implications for sociohistory (by Smith, Norval); 10. 7. Encoding path in Mauritian Creole and Bhojpuri: Problems of language contact (by Kriegel, Sibylle); 11. 8. On the principled nature of the respective contributions of substrate and superstrate languages to a creole's lexicon (by Lefebvre, Claire); 12. 9. Valency patterns in Seychelles Creole: Where do they come from? (by Michaelis, Susanne Maria); 13. 10. A first step towards the analysis of tone in Santomense (by Maurer, Philippe); 14. 11. Balanta, Guine-Bissau Creole Portuguese and Portuguese: A comparison of the noun phrase (by Intumbo, Incanha); 15. 12. Zamboangueno Chavacano and the potentive mode (by Rubino, Carl); 16. 13. Between contact and internal development: Towards a multi-layered explanation for the development of the TMA system in the creoles of Suriname (by Migge, Bettina); 17. 14. The formation of deverbal nouns in Vincentian Creole: Morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic processes (by Prescod, Paula); 18. 15. A la recherche du "superstrat": What North American French can and cannot tell us about the input to creolization (by Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid); 19. Personal name index; 20. Language index; 21. Places and Peoples index; 22. Subject index