Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact

Salikoko S. Mufwene is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. His current research is on the phylogenetic emergence and speciation of languages, and on language vitality. His books include The Ecology of Language Evolution (CUP, 2001), Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America (2014), and Bridging Linguistics and Economics (CUP, 2020). He is the founding editor of Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact. Anna María Escobar is Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Through the study of grammatical change, her work focuses on the emergence of contact-induced linguistic outcomes and minoritized Spanish varieties. Her long-term project focuses on the making of Andean Spanish, with colonial and post-colonial corpora.

• List of contributors; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Introduction: 1. Introduction: language contact in population structure Salikoko S. Mufwene and Anna María Escobar; Part I. Multilingualism: 2. Societal Multilingualism John Edwards; 3. Individual bilingualism Annick De Houwer; 4. Codeswitching and translanguaging Jeff MacSwan; 5. Urban contact dialects Heike Wiese; 6. Multilingualism and super-diversity: some historical and contrastive perspectives Salikoko S. Mufwene; 7. Multilingualism and language contact in signing communities David Quinto-Pozos and Robert Adam; 8. Multilingualism in India, Southeast Asia, and China Tej K. Bhatia; 9. Monolingualism vs. multilingualism in Western Europe: language regimes in France, Spain, and the United Kingdom Zsuzsanna Fagyal; Part II. Contact, Emergence, and Language Classification: 10. Perspectives on creole formation Enoch O. Aboh and Michel DeGraff; 11. Non-European pidgins in early European colonial explorations and trade: mobilian jargon and maritime Polynesian pidgin in contrast Emanuel J. Drechsel; 12. Mixed languages Felicity Meakins and Jesse Stewart; 13. Reconstructing the sociolinguistic history of expansion languages in the Americas: a research program Pieter Muysken; 14. On the idiolectal nature of lexical and phonological contact: spaniards, nahuas, and Yoruba in the new world Ricardo Otheguy, Naomi Shin and Daniel Erker; Part III. Lingua Francas: 15. The emergence of lingua Francas Nicholas Ostler; 16. Colonization and the emergence and spread of indigenous lingua francas in Africa, the Americas and Asia Hildo Honório do Couto; Part IV. Language Vitality: 17. Language endangerment, loss, and reclamation today David Bradley; 18. Contact and shift: colonization and urbanization in the Arctic Lenore A. Grenoble; 19. The Indian diaspora: language maintenance and loss Surendra K. Gambhir; 20. Quechua expansion during the Inca and colonial periods César Itier; 21. Indigenous and immigrant languages in the US: language contact, change and survival Mel M. Engman and Kendall A. King; Part V. Contact and Language Structures: 22. Structural outcomes of language contact Yaron Matras; 23. The emergence of Andean Spanish: against the odds Anna María Escobar; 24. Contact between English and Norman in the Channel Islands Mari C. Jones; Author index; Subject index.

'In this two-volume Cambridge handbook, Mufwene and Escobar have assembled four dozen novel studies on linguistic change, as induced or conditioned by migration, language contact, multilingualism and population structure. This hefty new reference work provides an important resource on language change in the living context of human societies.' George van Driem, Chair of Historical Linguistics, University of Bern