Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Acronyms and glosses ix
5. Portrait of Salikoko S. Mufwene xiv
6. Introduction 1
7. A sociolinguistic typology for languages in contact 23
8. A local history of Tok Pisin 57
9. Conventionalized creativity in the emergence of a mixed language – A case study of Light Warlpiri 81
10. Acquisition or shift? 105
11. Substrate influence in Northern Quechua languages 133
12. Coordination in the Suriname Creoles 161
13. Reflections on Darwin’s natural selection 191
14. Building grammar in the early stages of development of French Creoles 211
15. Foundings and futures 243
16. Detecting loan words computationally 269
17. Learnability and ecological factors as motivators of language change 289
18. The restructuring of Salikoko Mufwene through competition and selection 307
19. Language Index 327
20. Subject Index 329