This volume has a broad theme, and covers not just contacts between linguistic communities, but contacts between social groups and individuals are considered which may also have had linguistic implications for the formation of the special kind of contact languages represented by creole languages.

1. Introduction (by Smith, Norval); 2. 1. Relexification in creole genesis and its effects on the development of the creole (by Lefebvre, Claire); 3. 2. Voodoo Chile: Differential substrate effects in Saramaccan and Haitian (by Smith, Norval); 4. 3. Language intertwining: Its depiction in recent literature and its implications for theories of creolisation (by Grant, Anthony P.); 5. 4. Paralexification in language intertwining (by Mous, Maarten); 6. 5. Pidginization, creolization and creoloids in Stockholm, Sweden (by Kotsinas, Ulla-Britt); 7. 6. The origin of creole languages: The perspective of second language learning (by Muysken, Pieter); 8. 7. Koine formation and creole genesis (by Siegel, Jeff); 9. 8. Koineization and creole genesis: Remarks on Jeff Siegel's contribution (by Hinskens, Frans L.); 10. 9. Convergence and explanations in creole genesis (by Kouwenberg, Silvia); 11. 10. Contact-induced language change and Pidgin/Creole genesis (by Thomason, Sarah G.); 12. 11. Yiddish as a contact language (by Prince, Ellen F.); 13. 12. Social stratification and network relations in the formation of Sranan (by Arends, Jacques); 14. Index of languages; 15. Index of authors; 16. Index of subjects