The Handbook of Language Contact

The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages. An authoritative reference work exploring the major issues in the field of language contact: the study of how language changes when speakers of distinct speech varieties interact Brings together 40 specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars Examines language contact in societies which have significant immigration populations, and includes a fascinating cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the world Accessibly structured into sections exploring the place of contact studies within linguistics as a whole; the value of contact studies for research into language change; and language contact in the context of work on language and society Explores a broad range of topics, making it an excellent resource for both faculty and students across a variety of fields within linguistics

The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverageof the major issues in this field - ranging from the value ofcontact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigrationto dialectology - combining new research from a team ofglobally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerouslanguages.* An authoritative reference work exploring the major issues inthe field of language contact: the study of how language changeswhen speakers of distinct speech varieties interact* Brings together 40 specially-commissioned essays by aninternational team of scholars* Examines language contact in societies which have significantimmigration populations, and includes a fascinating cross-sectionof case studies drawing on languages across the world* Accessibly structured into sections exploring the place ofcontact studies within linguistics as a whole; the value of contactstudies for research into language change; and language contact inthe context of work on language and society* Explores a broad range of topics, making it an excellentresource for both faculty and students across a variety of fieldswithin linguistics

Notes on Contributors viiiPreface xviiiLanguage Contact: Reconsideration and Reassessment 1Raymond HickeyPart I Contact and Linguistics 291 Contact Explanations in Linguistics 31Sarah Thomason2 Genetic Classification and Language Contact 48Michael Noonan3 Contact, Convergence, and Typology 66Yaron Matras4 Contact and Grammaticalization 86Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva5 Language Contact and Grammatical Theory 106Karen P. Corrigan6 Computational Models and Language Contact 128April McMahonPart II Contact and Change 1497 Contact and Language Shift 151Raymond Hickey8 Contact and Borrowing 170Donald Winford9 Contact and Code-Switching 188Penelope Gardner-Chloros10 Contact and Dialectology 208David Britain11 Contact and New Varieties 230Paul Kerswill12 Contact and Change: Pidgins and Creoles 252John HolmPart III Contact and Society 26313 Scenarios for Language Contact 265Pieter Muysken14 Ethnic Identity and Linguistic Contact 282Carmen Fought15 Contact and Sociolinguistic Typology 299Peter Trudgill16 Contact and Language Death 320Suzanne Romaine17 Fieldwork in Contact Situations 340Claire BowernPart IV Case Studies of Contact 35918 Macrofamilies, Macroareas, and Contact 361Johanna Nichols19 Contact and Prehistory: The Indo-European Northwest 380Theo Vennemann20 Contact and the History of Germanic Languages 406Paul Roberge21 Contact and the Early History of English 432Markku Filppula22 Contact and the Development of American English 454Joseph C. Salmons and Thomas C. Purnell23 Contact Englishes and Creoles in the Caribbean 478Edgar W. Schneider24 Contact and Asian Varieties of English 498Umberto Ansaldo25 Contact and African Englishes 518Rajend Mesthrie26 Contact and the Celtic Languages 538Joseph F. Eska27 Spanish and Portuguese in Contact 550John M. Lipski28 Contact and the Development of the Slavic Languages 581Lenore A. Grenoble29 Contact and the Finno-Ugric Languages 598Johanna Laakso30 Language Contact in the Balkans 618Brian D. Joseph31 Contact and the Development of Arabic 634Kees Versteegh32 Turkic Language Contacts 652Lars Johanson33 Contact and North American Languages 673Marianne Mithun34 Language Contact in Africa: A Selected Review 695G. Tucker Childs35 Contact and Siberian Languages 714Brigitte Pakendorf36 Language Contact in South Asia 738Harold F. Schiffman37 Language Contact and Chinese 757Stephen Matthews38 Contact and Indigenous Languages in Australia 770Patrick McConvell39 Language Contact in the New Guinea Region 795William A. Foley40 Contact Languages of the Pacific 814Jeff SiegelAuthor Index 837Subject Index 844