Open publication The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. Contact-i

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

It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This s

This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents cutting-edge research by distinguished scholars in the field as well as by highly talented ne

The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language change and ling