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Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction to contact language formation; 2.Research questions; 3. The role of ecology in Asian contexts; 4. Theory oflanguage and contact language formation; 5. Contact language formation beyondexceptional evolution; 6. Outlook; Part II. The Ecology of Monsoon Asia: 7.Monsoon Asia; 8. Sino-Javanese trade; 9. The city-ports; 10. Manpower inSoutheast Asia; 11. The Western impact; Part III. Linguistic Ecologies ofSoutheast Asia: 12. Southeast Asia and the role of Malay; 13. Malay contactvarieties; 14. Introducing contexts of formation; 15. The role of Portuguesein Southeast Asia and Southern China; 16. Summary; Part IV. MethodologicalIssues in the Study of Contact Languages: 17. The ideology of theory; 18.Multilingualism and transmission; 19. Conclusions; Part V. Contact LanguageFormation in Evolutionary Theory: 20. Competence, performance andsocialization; 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 ofexceptionalism; 27. Final remarks; Part VII. Identity Alignment in Malay andAsian-Portuguese Diaspora: 28. The ecology of identity alignment; 29.Multiple alignments in contact settings; 30. Identity alignment andadmixture; 31. Conclusions; Part VIII. Pidgin Ecologies of the China Coast:32. Sociohistorical background of Europe-China relations; 33. The ecology ofMacau and the Pearl River Delta; 34. Grammatical features of China CoastPidgin; 35. The missing Makista link?; 36. Discussion; Part IX. Implications,Conclusions and New Horizons: 37. Theoretical and methodologicalimplications; 38. Conclusions and new horizons; References; Index; Authorindex.