The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, but also, in a much broader sense, the many other phenomena and processes found in these languages which serve to highlight sentence-level elements. The book is organized into five sections: (1) verb focus, predicate clefting and predicate doubling; (2) focus and anti-focus; (3) focus and pronominals; (4) discourse patterning; and (5) grammatical relations.