Notes on Contributors	7
	List of Abbreviations	14
	1 Introduction SILVIA KOUWENBERG AND JOHN VICTOR SINGLER	17
	Part I Properties of Pidgins and Creoles	33
	2 Atlantic Creole Syntax DONALD WINFORD	35
	3 Forging Pacific Pidgin and Creole Syntax: Substrate, Discourse, and Inherent Variability MIRIAM MEYERHOFF	64
	4 Pidgin and Creole Morphology TERRY CROWLEY	90
	5 Creole Phonology NORVAL S. H. SMITH	114
	6 Pidgins versus Creoles and Pidgincreoles PETER BAKKER	146
	7 Non-Indo-European Pidgins and Creoles KEES VERSTEEGH	174
	Part II Perspectives on Pidgin/Creole Genesis	203
	8 Pidgins/Creoles and Second Language Acquisition JEFF SIEGEL	205
	9 Creole Genesis: The Impact of the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis TONJES VEENSTRA	235
	10 Pidgins/Creoles and Historical Linguistics SARAH G. THOMASON	258
	11 Pidgins/Creoles and Contact Languages: An Overview RAJEND MESTHRIE	279
	12 Creole Studies and Multilingualism PIETER MUYSKEN	303
	13 A Demographic Perspective on Creole Formation JACQUES ARENDS	325
	14 The Sociohistorical Context of Creole Genesis JOHN VICTOR SINGLER	348
	15 The Cultural in Pidgin Genesis CHRISTINE JOURDAN	375
	Part III Pidgins/Creoles and Linguistic Explanation	399
	16 Grammaticalization in Pidgins and Creoles ADRIENNE BRUYN	401
	17 Creoles,Markedness, and Default Settings: An Appraisal ALAIN KIHM	427
	18 Semantic Evidence in Pidgin and Creole Genesis GEORGE HUTTAR	456
	19 Pidgins,Creoles,and Variation PETER L.PATRICK	477
	Part IV Pidgins/Creoles and Kindred Languages	505
	20 The Case of Signed Languages in the Context of Pidgin and Creole Studies JUDY KEGL	507
	21 Pidgins/Creoles and African American English ARTHUR K.SPEARS	528
	22 Spanish-Based Creoles in the Caribbean JOHN M. LIPSKI	559
	Part V Pidgins/Creoles in Society	581
	23 Pidgins/Creoles and Discourse GENEVIÈVE ESCURE	583
	24 Pidgins/Creoles and Education DENNIS CRAIG	609
	25 Language Planning in Pidgins and Creoles HUBERT DEVONISH	631
	26 Literary Representations of Creole Languages: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives from the Caribbean HÉLÈNE BUZELIN AND LISE WINER	653
	Author Index	682
	Language Index	693
	Subject Index	698