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This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the authors employ this dual methodology to reconstruct how multilingual individuals drew on their perception of Romance and West African languages to form French Guianese Creole. In doing so, they facilitate the application of a usage-based approach to language while simultaneously contributing significantly to the debate on creole origins. This innovative volume is sure to appeal to students and scholars of language history, creolisation and languages in contact. William Jennings is Senior Lecturer in French language, linguistics and culture at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research interests lie primarily within French colonial and encounter history, with a particular focus on the emergence of creole languages and societies. Stefan Pfänder is Full Professor of Romance linguistics at Albert-Ludwigs-Universitäts Freiburg, Germany. His teaching focuses on French, Spanish, Italian and Creole, while his research centres around the emergence of grammatical constructions in interaction, and usage-based models of language variation and change. Chapter 3 is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Creole dialects, French --- French Guianese. --- Linguistic change. --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Language and languages --- French Guianans --- Guyanais --- Ethnology --- French Creole languages --- African Languages. --- Linguistics. --- Historical linguistics. --- Romance languages. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Language Change. --- Historical Linguistics. --- Language History. --- Romance Languages. --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Neo-Latin languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and history --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- History --- African languages.

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In der aktuellen Kontaktlinguistik wurden überwiegend Sprachen in Kontakt betrachtet, die genetisch nicht verwandt und strukturell distant sind. Der vorliegende Sammelband setzt sich zum Ziel, mit einem Schwerpunkt im Bereich der romanischen und slavischen Sprachen die Bedeutung von bereits zu Beginn des Kontakts vorhandenen Effekten der strukturellen Kongruenz zwischen den beteiligten Sprachen zu beleuchten. Dabei spielen ererbte wie auch typologische Ähnlichkeiten eine Rolle. Modern contact linguistics has primarily focused on contact between languages that are genetically unrelated and structurally distant. This compendium of articles looks instead at the effects of pre-existing structural congruency between the affected languages at the time of their initial contact, using the Romance and Slavic languages as examples. In contact of this kind, both genetic and typological similarities play a part.

Sociolinguistics --- Dialectology --- Languages in contact. --- Language and languages --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Variation. --- Typology (Linguistics). --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistic typology --- Linguistics --- Linguistic universals --- Characterology of speech --- Language diversity --- Language subsystems --- Language variation --- Linguistic diversity --- Variation in language --- Areal linguistics --- Typology --- Classification --- Congruence. --- Convergence. --- Language Contact. --- Romance Languages. --- Slavic Languages.