Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. ONCE MORE ON THE GENESIS OF WEST AFRICAN PORTUGUESE CREOLES / 2. THE MISSING SPANISH CREOLES ARE STILL MISSING: REVISITING AFROGENESIS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR A COHERENT THEORY OF CREOLE GENESIS / 3. ON THE RELEVANCE OF CLASSICAL PORTUGUESE FEATURES IN FOUR ATLANTIC CREOLES / 4. DOCUMENTING 17TH-CENTURY LÍNGUA DE PRETO: EVIDENCE FROM THE COIMBRA ARCHIVES / 5. MACAU PIDGIN PORTUGUESE AND CREOLE PORTUGUESE: A CONTINUUM? / 6. PHILIPPINE CREOLE SPANISH ("CHABACANO"): ACCUSATIVE MARKING IN CAVITEÑO GRAMMATICAL AND DISCURSIVE FUNCTIONS / 7. PALENQUERO AND SPANISH: WHAT'S IN THE MIX? / 8. HOW PSYCHOLINGUISTICS CAN INFORM CONTACT LINGUISTICS: CONVERGING EVIDENCE AGAINST A DECREOLIZATION VIEW OF PALENQUERO / 9. RECONSTRUCTING THE LINGUISTIC HISTORY OF PALENQUES ON THE NATURE AND RELEVANCE OF COLONIAL DOCUMENTS / 10. TRUTH RESET: PRAGMATICS IN PALENQUERO NEGATION / Contributors