Boundaries and bridges : language contact in multilingual ecologies /

This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include child and adult bilingualism and multilingualism, contact languages, borrowing and contact-induced typological change, code switching in conversation, societal multilingualism, bilingual language processing, and various other topics related to language contact. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation, and include.Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Overview and background -- Kofi Yakpo and Pieter Muysken: Language contact and change in the multilingual ecologies of the Guianas -- Robert Borges: The people and languages of Suriname. Case studies. Kofi Yakpo: Creole in transition: contact with Dutch and typological change in Sranan -- Robert Borges: The maroon creoles of the Guianas: expansion, contact, and hybridization -- Kofi Yakpo: Out of India: language contact and change in Sarnami (Caribbean Hindustani) -- Sophie Villerius: Developments in Surinamese Javanese -- Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia with Jia Ann Shi: Hakka as spoken in Suriname -- Sergio Meira and Pieter Muysken: Cariban in contact: new perspectives on Trio-Ndyuka pidgin -- Eithne B. Carlin: Language contact in Southern Suriname: the case of trio â¿¿and Wayana -- Konrad Rybka: Contact-induced phenomena in Lokono (Arawakan) -- Pieter Muysken: The transformation of a colonial language: Surinamese Dutch -- Comparative perspectives. Robert Borges, Pieter Muysken, Sophie Villerius and Kofi Yakpo: The tense-mood-aspect systems of the languages of Suriname -- Bettina Migge: From grammar to meaning: towards a framework for studying synchronic language contact -- Kofi Yakpo and Pieter Muysken: Multilingual ecologies in the Guianas: overview, typology, prospects.This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include child and adult bilingualism and multilingualism, contact languages, borrowing and contact-induced typological change, code switching in conversation, societal multilingualism, bilingual language processing, and various other topics related to language contact. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation, and include