The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies Language con
Most societies in today's world are multilingual. 'Language contact' occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each oth
“This remains the fundamental base for studies of multilingual communities and language shift. Weinreich laid out the concepts, principles and issues that gov
What happens – sociologically, linguistically, educationally, politically – when more than one language is in regular use in a community? How do speakers ha
The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguisti