Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Section 1: Segments and syllables -- Markedness, faithfulness and creolization: The retention of the unmarked -- A new look at nasalization in Haitian Creole -- Two types of R deletion in Haitian Creole -- Rules vs. analogy: Modeling variation in word-final epenthesis in Sranan -- New evidence from the past: To epenthesize or not to epenthesize? That is the question -- Syllabic structure and creolization in Saotomense -- Section 2: Stress, tone and intonation -- The accentual system of Haitian Creole: The role of transfer and markedness values -- African American English suprasegmentals: Α study of pitch patterns in the Black English of the United States -- Section 3: Morphophonology -- The role of tone and rhyme structure in the organisation of grammatical morphemes in Tobagonian -- Prosodic contrast in Jamaican Creole reduplication -- Syllable structure and lexical markedness in Creole morphophonology: Determiner allomorphy in Haitian and elsewhere -- Section 4: Derivational morphology -- Early 18th century Sranan -man -- Morphological processes of word formation in Chabacano (Philippine Spanish Creole) -- The -pela suffix in Tok Pisin and the notion of'simplicity' in pidgin and Creole languages: What happens to morphology under contact? -- Section 5: Inflectional morphology -- What verbal morphology can tell us about Creole genesis: the case of French-related Creoles -- Inflectional plural marking in pidgins and Creoles: A comparative study -- Inflectional categories in Creole languages -- Subject Index -- Language Index -- Author Index