It is gratifying to have an up-to-date work on Caribbean linguistics from Caribbean scholars, and all the contributors to this volume may be so considered since, even though two are not indigenous, they are both (one present, one past) Mona staffers. This is also perhaps the first such work since the only previous home-produced volume, Studies in Caribbean Language (ed. L.D. Carrington et al., 1983) included circumstantially a number of papers from outside the Caribbean, which internationalized the scholarly base.