Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. 1. The origins of Macanese reduplication (by Ansaldo, Umberto); 3. 2. Court records as a source of authentic early Sranan (by Berg, Margot van den); 4. 3. Garifuna in Belize and Honduras (by Escure, Genevieve); 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); 6. 5. The development of variable NP plural agreement in a restructured African variety of Portuguese (by Baxter, Alan N.); 7. 6. Second language acquisition in creole genesis: The role of processability (by Field, Fredric); 8. 7. OT and the acquisition of Jamaican syllable structure (by Meade, Rocky R.); 9. 8. Double-object constructions in two French-based creoles (Morisyen and Seselwa) (by Adone, Dany); 10. 9. Passive voice in Papiamento: A corpus-based study on dialectal variability (by Eckkrammer, Eva Martha); 11. 10. Tone assignment on lexical items of English and African origin in Krio (by Finney, Malcolm Awadajin); 12. 11. TMA and the St. Lucian Creole verb phrase (by Frank, David B.); 13. 12. The Limonese calypso as an identity marker (by Herzfeld, Anita); 14. 13. The speech event kuutu in the Eastern Maroon community (by Migge, Bettina); 15. 14. Reflexivity in French-based creoles (by Mutz, Katrin); 16. 15. The role of style and identity in the development of Hawaiian Creole (by Roberts, Sarah J.); 17. Index