Convergence and divergence in language contact situations : [contributions to a symposium held in October 2007 at the Hamburg Research Centre on Multilingualism] Divergence convergence contact : challenges for the genealogical classification of languages Georg Bossong Increases in complexity as a result of language contact Östen Dahl Converging genetically related languages : endstation code mixing Kurt Braunmüller Converging languages diverging varieties : innovative relativisation patterns in Old Swedish Steffen Höder Converging verbal phrases in related languages : a case study from Faro Danish and Danish German language contact situations Karoline H. Kühl & Hjalmar P. Petersen Convergence and divergence of communicative norms through language contact in translation Viktor Becher Juliane House & Svenja Kranich On the importance of spontaneous speech innovations in language contact situations Robert E. Vann Gradient merging of vowels in Barcelona Catalan under the influence of Spanish Susana Cortés Conxita Lleó & Ariadna Benet Comparing the representation of iambs by monolingual German monolingual Spanish and bilingual German Spanish children Javier Arias & Conxita Lleó