The complex linguistic situation of earlier multilingual Britain has led to numerous contact-induced changes in the history of English. However, bi- and multili

The frequent mixing of different languages in early English texts, especially Latin, English and French, has been neglected by historical English linguistics. T

This book systematically discusses the link between bilingual language production and its manifestation in historical documents, drawing together two branches o

Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole

Most societies in today's world are multilingual. 'Language contact' occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each oth