Frontmatter -- Contents -- The study of mixed languages -- Social factors and linguistic processes in the -- emergence of stable mixed languages -- Mixed languages and acts of identity: An -- evolutionary approach -- What lies beneath: Split (mixed) languages as -- contact phenomena -- Mixed languages as autonomous systems -- Mixed languages: Re-examining the structural -- prototype -- Language contact and group identity: The role of -- "folk" linguistic engineering -- The linguistic properties of lexical manipulation -- and its relevance for Ma'á -- Can a mixed language be conventionalized -- alternational codeswitching? -- Not quite the right mixture: Chamorro and Malti as -- candidates for the status of mixed language -- Backmatter