Preface -- Introduction -- Northern pidgins -- Dual-source pidgins and reverse creoloids: Northern perspectives on language contact -- The special case of Arctic pidgins -- Siberia -- Language contact in northeastern Siberia (Chukotka and Kamchatka) -- Chukchi, English, and Eskimo: A survey of jargons in the Chukotka area -- A case of nongenetic development in the Arctic area: The contribution of Aleut and Russian to the formation of Copper Island Aleut -- The Taimyr Peninsula Russian-based pidgin -- Northwestern Russia and Scandinavia -- Solombala-English in Archangel -- The Vardø merchants' reduced Russian -- On the pidgin status of Russenorsk -- Aspect marking and grammaticalization in Russenorsk compared with Immigrant Swedish -- Greenland -- Eskimo pidgin in West Greenland -- North America -- Language contact and pidginization in Davis Strait, Hudson Strait, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (northeast Canada) -- An Inuit pidgin around Belle-Isle Strait (research note) -- Broken Slavey and Jargon Loucheux: A first exploration -- Arctic origin and domestic development of Chinook Jargon -- Index.