Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Maps -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- I. Introduction -- Australian language contact in historical and synchronic perspective -- II. Transfer of form: Structure -- 1. As intimate as it gets? Paradigm borrowing in Marrku and its implications for the emergence of mixed languages -- 2. Identifying the grammars of Queensland ex-government Reserve varieties: The case of Woorie Talk -- III. Transfer of form: Lexical -- 3. Kinship loanwords in Indigenous Australia, before and after colonisation -- 4. Placenames evidence for NSW Pidgin -- 5. Rethinking the substrates of Roper River Kriol: The case of Marra -- IV. Transfer of form: Phonological -- 6. Fact or furphy? The continuum in Kriol -- 7. Entrenchment of Light Warlpiri morphology -- V. Transfer of function, structure, distribution and semantics -- 8. Beware bambai - lest it be apprehensive -- 9. Reflexive, reciprocal and emphatic functions in Barunga Kriol -- 10 Grammaticalization and interactional pragmatics: A description of the recognitional determiner det in Roper River Kriol -- VI. (Further) Development of new structures -- 11. No fixed address: The grammaticalisation of the Gurindji locative as a progressive suffix -- 12. Borrowed verbs and the expansion of light verb phrases in Murrinhpatha -- 13. Gender bender: Superclassing in Jingulu gender marking -- Index