Abstract
This chapter explores how language diversity and contact research may inform the issue of the cross-linguistic stability and integrity of grammatical categories. Data are adduced from different languages to show that categories are not uniform across languages and are not unitary notions, but emerge at the interface of different components of our human cognitive and communicative capacities. The focus is on three language contact phenomena: code switching, borrowing, and (creole) language formation.
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