
The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change--provides extensive new research and original case studies Language contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguistic research that studies how language changes when speakers of different...

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...

The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change--provides extensive new research and original case studies Language contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguistic research that studies how language changes when speakers...

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,...