Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Creolisation and word-formation: some central issues -- 3 The socio-historical and demographic background of Early Sranan -- 4 Methodology -- 5 Early Sranan word-formation: establishing a descriptive framework -- 6 Multifunctionality of lexical items in Early Sranan -- 7 Concatenative patterns -- 8 Reduplication patterns -- 9 The emergence of Early Sranan word-formation: a conclusion -- Backmatter