Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Overview and background -- Language contact and change in the multilingual ecologies of the Guianas -- The people and languages of Suriname -- Case studies -- Creole in transition: Contact with Dutch and typological change in Sranan -- The Maroon creoles of the Guianas: Expansion, contact, and hybridization -- Out of India: Language contact and change in Sarnami (Caribbean Hindustani) -- Developments in Surinamese Javanese -- Hakka as spoken in Suriname -- Cariban in contact: New perspectives on Trio-Ndyuka pidgin -- Language contact in Southern Suriname: The case of Trio and Wayana -- Contact-induced phenomena in Lokono (Arawakan) -- The transformation of a colonial language: Surinamese Dutch -- Comparative perspectives -- The tense-mood-aspect systems of the languages of Suriname -- From grammar to meaning: Towards a framework for studying synchronic language contact -- Multilingual ecologies in the Guianas: Overview, typology, prospects -- References -- Author index -- Subject and language index