Handbook of Language Contact

Raymond Hickey is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Duisburg and Essen, Department of Anglophone Studies, Germany. His main areas of research are varieties of English, focused on Irish English, and general questions of language contact, shift, and change. He has written several books, including Listening to the Past, Audio Records of Accents of English (2017), Sociolinguistics in Ireland (2016), and A Dictionary of Varieties of English (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), and has published numerous articles on various issues within linguistics, as well as producing an electronic corpus of Irish English.

• Notes on Contributors ixPreface xviiLanguage Contact and Linguistic Research 1Raymond HickeyPart I – Contact, Contact Studies, and Linguistics 311 Contact Explanations in Linguistics 33Sarah Thomason2 Contact, Bilingualism, and Diglossia 51Lotfi Sayahi3 Language Contact and Change through Child First Language Acquisition 67Carmel O’Shannessy and Lucinda Davidson4 Contact and Grammaticalization 93Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva5 Contact and Language Convergence 113Anthony P. Grant6 Contact and Linguistic Typology 129Oliver Bond, Helen Sims‐Williams, and Matthew Baerman7 Contact and Language Shift 149Raymond Hickey8 Contact and Lexical Borrowing 169Philip Durkin9 Contact and Code‐Switching 181Penelope Gardner‐Chloros10 Contact and Mixed Languages 201Peter Bakker11 Contact and Sociolinguistic Variation 221Maya Ravindranath Abtahian and Jonathan Kasstan12 Contact and New Varieties 241Paul Kerswill13 Contact in the City 261Heike Wiese14 Linguistic Landscapes and Language Contact 281Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, and Siu‐Lun LeePart II – Case Studies of Contact 30115 Contact and Early Indo‐European in Europe 303Bridget Drinka16 Contact and the History of Germanic Languages 323Paul Roberge17 Contact in the History of English 345Robert McColl Millar18 Contact and the Development of American English 361Joseph C. Salmons and Thomas Purnell19 Contact and African Englishes 385Rajend Mesthrie20 Contact and Caribbean Creoles 403Edgar W. Schneider and Raymond Hickey21 Contact and the Romance Languages 425John Charles Smith22 Contact and Spanish in the Pacific 453Eeva Sippola23 Contact and Portuguese‐Lexified Creoles 469Hugo C. Cardoso24 Contact and the Celtic Languages 489Joseph F. Eska25 Contact and the Slavic Languages 501Lenore A. Grenoble26 Contact and the Finno‐Ugric Languages 519Johanna Laakso27 Language Contact in the Balkans 537Brian D. Joseph28 Turkic Language Contacts 551Lars Johanson, Éva Á. Csató, and Birsel Karakoc29 Contact and Afroasiatic Languages 571Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay30 Contact and North American Languages 593Marianne Mithun31 Contact and Mayan Languages 613Danny Law32 Contact and South American Languages 625Lyle Campbell, Thiago Chacon, and John Elliott33 Contact among African Languages 649Klaus Beyer34 Contact and Siberian Languages 669Brigitte Pakendorf35 Language Contact: Sino‐Russian 689Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Natalia Gurian, and Sergei Karpenko36 Language Contact and Australian Languages 717Jill Vaughan and Debbie Loakes37 Contact Languages of the Pacific 741Jeff SiegelIndex 763

“This book (in its second edition) brings together a considerable amount of knowledge on the subject of language contact. Inasmuch as topics range from methodological discussions on contacts in prehistoric languages to urban sociolinguistics, the diversity of the methodological approaches and the extent of the phenomena covered are very impressive.” -- Emmanuel Schang, University of Orléans for LINGUIST List 32.2117, June 2021