The Handbook of Language Contact

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Language Contact and Linguistic Research -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Recent Studies of Language Contact -- 2.1 Overviews of Language Contact -- 2.2 What Does Contact-induced Language Change Encompass? -- 2.3 Code-switching and Contact -- 2.4 Language Contact, Linguistic Areas, and Typology -- 2.5 Language Contact and Creole Studies -- 2.6 Language Contact and Mixed Languages -- 2.7 Language Contact, Obsolescence, and Death -- 2.8 Language Contact and Grammaticalization -- 2.9 Language Contact and Complexity -- 2.10 Early Language Contact and Older Hypotheses -- 2.11 Language and/or Dialect Contact -- 2.12 Language Contact in Pluricentric Languages -- 2.13 Language Contact and Diasporic Varieties -- 2.14 Language Contact in English Studies -- 2.15 Vernacular Universals and Contact -- 2.16 Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Language Contact -- 2.17 Contact in Urban Environments -- 2.18 Language Contact and Globalization -- 3 Generalizations Concerning Contact -- 3.1 Internal vs External Reasons -- 3.2 Substrate and Superstrate -- 3.3 Relative Status and Direction of Influence -- 3.4 Where Does it Start? The Locus of Contact -- 3.5 What Can be Attributed to Language Contact? -- 3.6 Pushing the Question Back -- 3.7 The History of Contact Phenomena -- 3.8 Contact in Hindsight -- 3.9 Category and Exponence -- 3.10 Transfer in Language Shift -- 3.11 The Search for Categorial Equivalence -- 3.12 Neglect of Distinctions in Language Shift -- 3.13 What Does not get Transferred in Language Contact? -- 3.14 Nonbinary Categories in Contact -- 3.15 Permeability of Linguistic Systems -- 3.16 Borrowing to Resolve Ambiguity -- 3.17 Borrowing to Fill Gaps in Paradigms -- 3.18 Convergence Scenarios -- 3.19 Internal Developments which Favor Borrowing.

"Language contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguistic research that studies how language changes when speakers of different languages interact. Accessibly structured into three sections, The Handbook of Language Contact explores the role of contact studies within the field of linguistics, the value of contact studies for language change research, and the relevance of language contact for sociolinguistics. This authoritative volume presents original findings and fresh research directions from an international team of prominent experts. Thirty-seven specially-commissioned chapters cover a broad range of topics and case studies of contact from around the world. Now in its second edition, this valuable reference has been extensively updated with new chapters on topics including globalization, language acquisition, creolization, code-switching, and genetic classification. Fresh case studies examine Romance, Indo-European, African, Mayan, and many other languages in both the past and the present. Addressing the major issues in the field of language contact studies"--