Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' foreword and introduction -- Part 1 Pidgin and creole linguistics -- The odyssey of criollo -- The Anglicist / creolist quest for the roots of AAVE: Historical overview and new evidence from the copula -- Bozal Spanish: Captivating new evidence from a contemporary source (Afro-Cuban "Palo Monte") -- The origins of the Afrikaans pre-nominal possessive system(s) -- Part 2 The German language in the United States -- Patterns of language maintenance in German American speech islands -- Plattdüütsch and Plautdietsch in western Missouri and Kansas: The resilience of Low German networks on the Great Plains -- Standard German in Texas -- Borrowing trouble: Convergence in Pennsylvania German -- Part 3 Theoretical issues in language contact studies -- Some exploratory comments relating sociolinguistic typology to language shift -- Revisiting relexification in creole formation -- Revisiting the creole prototype: Signs of antiquity in older languages -- Microsyntax and macrodiscourse: "Da mistery" in Hawai'i Creole -- Wrestling with dichotomies in creole studies: Towards a more complete view of language emergence -- Biographical sketch of Glenn G. Gilbert -- Editors and contributors -- Name index -- Language index -- Subject index.