Umberto Ansaldo is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. He was formerly a Senior Researcher and Lecturer with the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication at the University of Amsterdam. He has also worked in Sweden and Singapore and conducted fieldwork in China, the Cocos and Christmas Islands and Sri Lanka. He is the co-editor of the Creole Language Library Series and has co-edited various journals and books including Deconstructing Creole (2007).
Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction to contact language formation
2. Research questions
3. The role of ecology in Asian contexts
4. Theory of language and contact language formation
5. Contact language formation beyond exceptional evolution
6. Outlook
Part II. The Ecology of Monsoon Asia: 7. Monsoon Asia
8. Sino-Javanese trade
9. The city-ports
10. Manpower in Southeast Asia
11. The Western impact
Part III. Linguistic Ecologies of Southeast Asia: 12. Southeast Asia and the role of Malay
13. Malay contact varieties
14. Introducing contexts of formation
15. The role of Portuguese in Southeast Asia and Southern China
16. Summary
Part IV. Methodological Issues in the Study of Contact Languages: 17. The ideology of theory
18. Multilingualism and transmission
19. Conclusions
Part V. Contact Language Formation in Evolutionary Theory: 20. Competence, performance and socialization
21. Language evolution and contact languages
22. Functionalist assets for contact linguistics
23. Conclusions
Part VI. Congruence and Frequency in Sri Lanka Malay: 24. The SLM community
25. Selection and replication in SLM
26. Freeing SLM from the chains of exceptionalism
27. Final remarks
Part VII. Identity Alignment in Malay and Asian-Portuguese Diaspora: 28. The ecology of identity alignment
29. Multiple alignments in contact settings
30. Identity alignment and admixture
31. Conclusions
Part VIII. Pidgin Ecologies of the China Coast: 32. Sociohistorical background of Europe-China relations
33. The ecology of Macau and the Pearl River Delta
34. Grammatical features of China Coast Pidgin
35. The missing Makista link?
36. Discussion
Part IX. Implications, Conclusions and New Horizons: 37. Theoretical and methodological implications
38. Conclusions and new horizons
References
Index
Author index.
