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Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors viii Preface xviii Language Contact: Reconsideration and Reassessment 1 Raymond Hickey Part I Contact and Linguistics 29 1 Contact Explanations in Linguistics 31 Sarah Thomason 2 Genetic Classification and Language Contact 48 Michael Noonan 3 Contact, Convergence, and Typology 66 Yaron Matras 4 Contact and Grammaticalization 86 Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva 5 Language Contact and Grammatical Theory 106 Karen P. Corrigan 6 Computational Models and Language Contact 128 April McMahon Part II Contact and Change 149 7 Contact and Language Shift 151 Raymond Hickey 8 Contact and Borrowing 170 Donald Winford 9 Contact and Code-Switching 188 Penelope Gardner-Chloros 10 Contact and Dialectology 208 David Britain 11 Contact and New Varieties 230 Paul Kerswill 12 Contact and Change: Pidgins and Creoles 252 John Holm Part III Contact and Society 263 13 Scenarios for Language Contact 265 Pieter Muysken 14 Ethnic Identity and Linguistic Contact 282 Carmen Fought 15 Contact and Sociolinguistic Typology 299 Peter Trudgill 16 Contact and Language Death 320 Suzanne Romaine 17 Fieldwork in Contact Situations 340 Claire Bowern Part IV Case Studies of Contact 359 18 Macrofamilies, Macroareas, and Contact 361 Johanna Nichols 19 Contact and Prehistory: The Indo-European Northwest 380 Theo Vennemann 20 Contact and the History of Germanic Languages 406 Paul Roberge 21 Contact and the Early History of English 432 Markku Filppula 22 Contact and the Development of American English 454 Joseph C. Salmons and Thomas C. Purnell 23 Contact Englishes and Creoles in the Caribbean 478 Edgar W. Schneider 24 Contact and Asian Varieties of English 498 Umberto Ansaldo 25 Contact and African Englishes 518 Rajend Mesthrie 26 Contact and the Celtic Languages 538 Joseph F. Eska 27 Spanish and Portuguese in Contact 550 John M. Lipski 28 Contact and the Development of the Slavic Languages 581 Lenore A. Grenoble 29 Contact and the Finno-Ugric Languages 598 Johanna Laakso 30 Language Contact in the Balkans 618 Brian D. Joseph 31 Contact and the Development of Arabic 634 Kees Versteegh 32 Turkic Language Contacts 652 Lars Johanson 33 Contact and North American Languages 673 Marianne Mithun 34 Language Contact in Africa: A Selected Review 695 G. Tucker Childs 35 Contact and Siberian Languages 714 Brigitte Pakendorf 36 Language Contact in South Asia 738 Harold F. Schiffman 37 Language Contact and Chinese 757 Stephen Matthews 38 Contact and Indigenous Languages in Australia 770 Patrick McConvell 39 Language Contact in the New Guinea Region 795 William A. Foley 40 Contact Languages of the Pacific 814 Jeff Siegel Author Index 837 Subject Index 844

About the Author :
Raymond Hickey is Professor of Linguistics at Essen University, Germany. His main areas of research are varieties of English (especially Irish English) and general questions of language contact, shift, and change as well as computer corpus processing. He has published widely, the most recent titles being A Sound Atlas of Irish English (2004), Legacies of Colonial English (2004), Dublin English: Evolution and Change (2005), Irish English: History and Present-Day Forms (2007), and Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and Change (2010).

Review :
“This volume represents a welcome addition to the literature on language contact, assembling contributions from international experts to offer an extensive resource which encompasses a broad range of language contact research.”  (The Linguist List, 12 April 2014)  


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781118448694
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1118448693
  • Publisher Date: 24 Apr 2013
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 896


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