Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgments; 2. Introduction (by Angermeyer, Philipp S.); 3. Part 1. The sociohistorical matrix of language contact; 4. Population factors, multilingualism and the emergence of grammar (by Aboh, Enoch O.); 5. The African diaspora in Latin America: Linguistic contact and consequences (by Guy, Gregory R.); 6. The sociohistorical matrix of creolization and the role children played in this process (by Kouwenberg, Silvia); 7. Creole as necessity? Creole as choice?: Evidence from Afrikaans historical sociolinguistics (by Deumert, Ana); 8. Bahamian Creole English: Yesterday, today and tomorrow (by Seymour, Chanti); 9. Linguistic commonality in English of the African diaspora: Evidence from lesser-known varieties of English (by Wolfram, Walt); 10. Historical separations: Race, class and language in Barbados (by Blake, Renee); 11. Part 2. Sources of grammar and processes of language contact; 12. Some observations on the sources of AAVE structure: Re-examining the creole connection (by Winford, Donald); 13. Unity in diversity: The homogeneity of the substrate and the grammar of space in the African and Caribbean English-lexifier creoles (by Yakpo, Kofi); 14. Krio as the Western Maroon Creole language of Jamaica, and the /na/ isogloss (by Smith, Norval); 15. Number marking in Jamaican Patwa (by Patrick, Peter L.); 16. Variationist creolistics, with a phonological focus (by Rickford, John R.); 17. Pidginization versus second language acquisition: Insights from basilang and mesolang varieties of Zulu as a second language (by Mesthrie, Rajend); 18. Crosslinguistic effects in adjectivization strategies in Suriname, Ghana and Togo (by Berg, Margot van den)