Subject and language index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. Overview and background
6. Language contact and change in the multilingual ecologies of the Guianas 3
7. The people and languages of Suriname 21
8. Case studies
9. Creole in transition: Contact with Dutch and typological change in Sranan 57
10. The Maroon creoles of the Guianas: Expansion, contact, and hybridization 87
11. Out of India: Language contact and change in Sarnami (Caribbean Hindustani) 129
12. Developments in Surinamese Javanese 151
13. Hakka as spoken in Suriname 179
14. Cariban in contact: New perspectives on Trio-Ndyuka pidgin 197
15. Language contact in Southern Suriname: The case of Trio and Wayana 229
16. Contact-induced phenomena in Lokono (Arawakan) 257
17. The transformation of a colonial language: Surinamese Dutch 283
18. Comparative perspectives
19. The tense-mood-aspect systems of the languages of Suriname 311
20. From grammar to meaning: Towards a framework for studying synchronic language contact 363
21. Multilingual ecologies in the Guianas: Overview, typology, prospects 383
22. References 405
23. Author index 433
24. Subject and language index 439