The handbook of language contact
By: edited by Raymond Hickey.
Contributors: Hickey, Raymond, 1954-
Series: Blackwell handbooks in linguistics
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 890
ISBN-13: 9781405175807
Subjects: Languages in contact -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Notes on contributors; title: Language contact: reconsideration and reassessment / Raymond Hickey; title: Part I. Contact and linguistics: 1. Contact explanations in linguistics / Sarah Thomason; title: 2. Genetic classification and language contact / Michael Noonan; title: 3. Contact, convergence and typology / Yaron Matras; title: 4. Contact and grammaticalization / Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva; title: 5. Language contact and grammatical theory / Karen Corrigan; title: 6. Computational models and language contact / April McMahon; title: Part II. Contact and change: 7. Contact and language shift / Raymond Hickey; title: 8. Contact and borrowing / Donald Winford; title: 9. Contact and code-switching / Penelope Gardner-Chloros; title: 10. Contact and dialectology / David Britain; title: 11. Contact and new varieties / Paul Kerswill; title: 12. Contact and change: Pidgins and creoles / John Holm; title: Part III. Contact and society: 13. Scenarios for language contact / Pieter Muysken; title: 14. Ethnic identity and linguistic contact / Carmen Fought; title: 15. Contact and sociolinguistic typology / Peter Trudgill; title: 16. Contact and language death / Suzanne Romaine; title: 17. Fieldwork in contact situations / Claire Bowern; title: Part IV. Case studies of contact: 18. Macrofamilies, macroareas and contact / Johanna Nichols; title: 19. Contact and prehistory: The Indo-European Northwest / Theo Vennemann; title: 20. Contact and the history of Germanic languages / Paul Roberge; title: 21. Contact and the early history of English / Markku Filppula; title: 22. Contact and the development of American English / Joseph Salmons and Thomas Purnell; title: 23. Contact Englishes and creoles in the Caribbean / Edgar W. Schneider; title: 24. Contact and Asian varieties of English / Umberto Ansaldo; title: 25. Contact and African Englishes / Rajend Mesthrie; title: 26. Contact and the Celtic languages / Joseph Eska; title: 27. Spanish and Portuguese in contact / John M. Lipski; title: 28. Contact and the Slavic languages / Lenore A. Grenoble; title: 29. Contact and the Finno-Ugric languages / Johanna Laakso; title: 30. Language contact in the Balkans / Brian Joseph; title: 31. Contact and the development of Arabic / Kees Versteegh; title: 32. Turkic language contacts / Lars Johanson; title: 33. Contact and North American languages / Marianne Mithun; title: 34. Language contact in Africa, a selected review / G. Tucker Childs; title: 35. Contact and Siberian languages / Brigitte Pakendorf; title: 36. Language contact in South Asia / Harold Schiffman; title: 37. Language contact and Chinese / Stephen Matthews; title: 38. Contact and indigenous languages in Australia / Patrick McConvell; title: 39. Language contact in the New Guinea region / William Foley; title: 40. Contact languages of the Pacific / Jeff Siegel.