This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and SanFrancisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of creolists’ current research interests. All of the contributions address questions directly relevant to pidgin/creole studies and other contact languages. The majority of papers address issues of morphology or syntax.Some of the contributions make use of phonological analysis while others study language development from the point of view of acquisition. A few papers examine discourse strategies and style, or broader issues of social and ethnic identity. While this array of topics and perspectives is reflective of the diversity of the field, there is also much common ground in that all of the papers adduce solid data corpora to support their analyses. The range of languages analyzed spans the planet, as approximately twenty contact varieties are studied in this volume. Table of contentsPreface vii–x 1. The origins of Macanese reduplication Umberto Ansaldo and Stephen Matthews 1–19 2. Court records as a source of authentic early Sranan Margot van den Berg and Jacques Arends 21–34 3. Garifuna in Belize and Honduras Geneviève Escure 35–65 4. The Nova Scotia–Sierra Leone connection: New evidence on an early variety of African American Vernacular English in the diaspora Magnus Huber 67–95 5. The development of variable NP plural agreement in a restructuredAfrican variety of Portuguese Alan N. Baxter 97–126 6. Second language acquisition in creole genesis: The role of processability Fredric W. Field 127–160 7. OT and the acquisition of Jamaican syllable structure Rocky R. Meade 161–188 8. Double-object constructions in two French-based creoles (Morisyen andSeselwa) Dany Adone 189–208 9. Passive voice in Papiamento: A corpus-based study on dialectal variability Eva Martha Eckkrammer 209–219 10. Tone assignment on lexical items of English and African origin in Krio Malcolm Awadajin Finney 221–236 11. TMA and the St. Lucian Creole verb phrase David B. Frank 237–257 12. The Limonese calypso as an identity marker Anita Herzfeld and David Moskowitz 259–284 13. The speech event kuutu in the Eastern Maroon community Bettina Migge 285–306 14. Reflexivity in French-based creoles Katrin Mutz 307–329 15. The role of style and identity in the development of Hawaiian Creole Sarah J. Roberts 331–350 Index 351–354