Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction. Pieter C. Muysken 1
6. Part 1. Creole languages and creole studies
7. Moving into and out of Sranan 37
8. Sociolinguistic characteristics of the English-lexifier contact languages of West Africa 61
9. The quest for non-European creoles 85
10. Are creoles a special type of language? 107
11. Part 2. Linguistic areas
12. Separating layers of information 161
13. Areal diffusion of applicatives in the Amazon 179
14. Transfer of Swahili ‘until’ in contact with East African languages 217
15. Part 3. Mixed languages and language mixing
16. Turkish-German code-switching patterns revisited 237
17. Mixing and semantic transparency in the genesis of Yilan Japanese 261
18. Pottefers Cant, Groenstraat Bargoens, and the development of “have” and “be” in the wider context of contact 283
19. Part 4. Sociolinguististic aspects of language contact
20. Sociolinguistic enregisterment through languagecultural practices 341
21. Snow on the Danish Antilles? 365
22. Subject index 389
23. Author index 391
24. Language index 397