Alexandra Aikhenvald is Professor of Linguistics and Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. She was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1980-89, and Professor of Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, until 1994.

• 1. Language contact and language change in Amazonia ; 2. Diffusional phenomena in phonology ; 3. Typological profile and pronominal systems of East Tucanoan and Arawak languages ; 4. Nominal categories and diffusion ; 5. Diffusion of verbal categories ; 6. Diffusional phenomena in syntax and in discourse ; 7. The impact of Portuguese on Tariana ; 8. How to keep languages apart: code-switching and code-mixing ; 9. Language awareness and correct speech among the Tariana ; 10. Diffusion of patterns and direct diffusion in the Vaupes ; 11. Language obsolescence and language change in Tariana ; 12. Language contact in multilingual situations: conclusions

...one of the essential resources in language-contact literature.

Alexandra Aikhenvald is Professor of Linguistics and Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. She was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1980-89, and Professor of Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, until 1994.

• 1. Language contact and language change in Amazonia ; 2. Diffusional phenomena in phonology ; 3. Typological profile and pronominal systems of East Tucanoan and Arawak languages ; 4. Nominal categories and diffusion ; 5. Diffusion of verbal categories ; 6. Diffusional phenomena in syntax and in discourse ; 7. The impact of Portuguese on Tariana ; 8. How to keep languages apart: code-switching and code-mixing ; 9. Language awareness and correct speech among the Tariana ; 10. Diffusion of patterns and direct diffusion in the Vaupes ; 11. Language obsolescence and language change in Tariana ; 12. Language contact in multilingual situations: conclusions

...one of the essential resources in language-contact literature.

Alexandra Aikhenvald is Professor of Linguistics and Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. She was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1980-89, and Professor of Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, until 1994.

• 1. Language contact and language change in Amazonia ; 2. Diffusional phenomena in phonology ; 3. Typological profile and pronominal systems of East Tucanoan and Arawak languages ; 4. Nominal categories and diffusion ; 5. Diffusion of verbal categories ; 6. Diffusional phenomena in syntax and in discourse ; 7. The impact of Portuguese on Tariana ; 8. How to keep languages apart: code-switching and code-mixing ; 9. Language awareness and correct speech among the Tariana ; 10. Diffusion of patterns and direct diffusion in the Vaupes ; 11. Language obsolescence and language change in Tariana ; 12. Language contact in multilingual situations: conclusions

...one of the essential resources in language-contact literature.