Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Overview and context -- 2 English on Croker Island: Sociohistorical background -- 3 Phonetics and phonology -- 4 Morphosyntax -- 5 Lexicon and constructions -- 6 The fluidity of variation -- 7 Layers of contact -- 8 Theoretical implications -- 9 Summary and conclusions -- References -- Index