Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge the help of everyone who assisted in anyway in the production of this volume.

First of all, we would like to thank a nameless but very important group of people, our 25 anonymous reviewers of the 12 scientific contributions. Then the 17 authors of these 12 contributions (five joint articles), some of whom have had to be very patient.

Then we would like to thank the editors of the retooled Benjamins Creole Language Library, henceforth the Contact Language Library, in particular Felicity Meakins of the University of Queensland. Felicity has been a great help and encouragement during the whole long process.

We would also like to thank Kees Vaes of of the John Benjamins Publishing Company for his stalwart help with regard to the production process.

We would finally like to think Frans Hinskens, and the staff of the Meertens Institute, for facilitating the presentation of 10 of the 12 papers, in an afternoon symposium on 6th December 2019.