Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
"Absolutely indispensable reading for anyone interested in  either  language structure or intercultural contact."  --Paul J. Hopper, American  Anthropologist"For the integration of contact-induced language change into  historical  linguistics this book constitutes the greatest breakthrough since Uriel  Weinreich's Languages in Contact of 1953, and I am convinced it will be  the  touchstone for the further development of the discipline for years to  come."  --Edgar W. Schneider, English World-Wide"[A] major work. . . . In scope and breadth of conception there  is  simply no other discussion of language contact that approaches it."  --Jay  H.  Jasanoff, Language