Sebastian Nordhoff, Ph. D. (2009), University of Amsterdam, is postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Insitute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. He works on languages of Sri Lanka, language contact, and Linguistic Linked Open Data. Next to his reference grammar of Sri Lanka Malay, he has published on its synchrony and diachrony.Contributors include Peter Bakker, James W. Gair, Mohamed Jaffar, Sebastian Nordhoff, Romola Rassool, Peter Slomanson, and Ian Smith.

• List of Tables List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements AbbreviationsPART IOVERVIEW1. Introduction Sebastian Nordhoff2. Synchronic Grammar of Sri Lanka MalaySebastian NordhoffPART IISOCIOLOGY, HISTORY, AND DEMOGRAPHY3. Sri Lanka Malay: New Findings on Contacts Peter Bakker4. Known, Inferable, and Discoverable in Sri Lankan Malay ResearchPeter Slomanson5. Issues of Power and Privilege in the Maintenance of Sri Lanka Malay: A Sociolinguistic AnalysisRomola RassoolPART IIILANGUAGE CONTACT6. The Lexical Sources of Sri Lanka Malay RevisitedScott Paauw7. Sri Lankan Languages in the South-South Asia Linguistic Area: Sinhala and Sri Lanka MalayJames W. Gair8. Hijacked Constructions in Second Language Acquisition: Implications for Sri Lanka Malay Ian Smith9. The Semantics of Serial Verb Constructions in Sri Lanka MalayMohamed Jaffar10. The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay as a Multi-Layered ProcessSebastian NordhoffIndex

"This volume is an excellent example of how the synergy of different linguistic fields can yield a tangible result. Reading through the volume, one gets a very clear picture of how far linguists have come in understanding the origins and formation of SLM. The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay will be of great value not only to linguists interested in SLM, but also to scholars interested in language contact, language change, creolization, sociolinguistics, and language policy." – Francesca R. Moro, in: Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 1/2 (2014), pp. 223-228"This book will be of great value to linguists interested in the importance of socio-historical context in the development of contact languages and the interaction of structural features between languages in contact." – Felicity Meakins, The University of Queensland, on: Linguist List