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

<p>“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.”  (<i>The Linguist List</i>, 12 April 2014)</p> <p> </p>

<b>Raymond Hickey</b> 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 <i>A Sound Atlas of Irish English</i> (2004), <i>Legacies of Colonial English</i> (2004), <i>Dublin English: Evolution and Change</i> (2005), <i>Irish English: History and Present-Day Forms</i> (2007), and <i>Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and Change</i> (2010).

<p>Language contact has an impact upon virtually all aspects of language change, and is increasingly a major topic of research within linguistics. <i>The Handbook of Language Contact</i> encompasses every area of language contact in a systematic and focused approach, and contains 40 specially commissioned essays by a team of globally renowned scholars who offer a wide-ranging exploration of the field. The volume contains numerous case studies from languages across the world, attesting to the variety and linguistic significance of this subject.</p> <p>This authoritative <i>Handbook</i> is accessibly structured into sections exploring the place of contact studies within linguistics as a whole; the value of contact studies for research into language change; and language contact in the context of work on language and society. The final section of the volume offers a representative cross-section of individual studies which reappraise the role of language contact in their respective contexts. The <i>Handbook</i> is an essential reference for linguists working in the fields of language contact and change, language theory, sociolinguistics, and bilingualism.</p>

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