Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor and Research Leader (People and Societies of the Tropics) in the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and has published, in Russian, a grammar of Modern Hebrew (1990; second edition 2009). She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker who has since died) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge University Press, 2003), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages.Other books include Classifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000, paperback 2003), Language Contact in Amazonia (2002) and Evidentiality (2004, paperback 2006), all published by OUP. She is co-editor with R. M. W. Dixon of the OUP series Explorations in Linguistic Typology, the fifth volume of which, The Semantics of Clause Linking, appeared in 2009.

• 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. The 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 ; References ; Index of Languages ; Index of Authors ; Subject Index

What makes this book an outstanding source for understanding of contact-induced language change is, first, that it constitutes one of the most comprehensive studies that are available on the impact of language contact on a particular group of languages, and, second, that it describes in detail the magnitude of areal diffusion and its implications for grammatical categorization. It is by now widely accepted that in situations of intense language contact virtually any linguistic phenomena can be transferred from one language to another; what the author reveals in this book is first how contact can affect almost the entire structure of grammatical categorization and, second, that rather than leading to simplification, grammatical transfer has the effect that the grammar of the languages involved becomes more complex. It is hoped that this book will serve as a model for future work on language contact in other parts of the world.

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor and Research Leader (People and Societies of the Tropics) in the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and has published, in Russian, a grammar of Modern Hebrew (1990; second edition 2009). She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker who has since died) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge University Press, 2003), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages.Other books include Classifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000, paperback 2003), Language Contact in Amazonia (2002) and Evidentiality (2004, paperback 2006), all published by OUP. She is co-editor with R. M. W. Dixon of the OUP series Explorations in Linguistic Typology, the fifth volume of which, The Semantics of Clause Linking, appeared in 2009.

• 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. The 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 ; References ; Index of Languages ; Index of Authors ; Subject Index

What makes this book an outstanding source for understanding of contact-induced language change is, first, that it constitutes one of the most comprehensive studies that are available on the impact of language contact on a particular group of languages, and, second, that it describes in detail the magnitude of areal diffusion and its implications for grammatical categorization. It is by now widely accepted that in situations of intense language contact virtually any linguistic phenomena can be transferred from one language to another; what the author reveals in this book is first how contact can affect almost the entire structure of grammatical categorization and, second, that rather than leading to simplification, grammatical transfer has the effect that the grammar of the languages involved becomes more complex. It is hoped that this book will serve as a model for future work on language contact in other parts of the world.

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor and Research Leader (People and Societies of the Tropics) in the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and has published, in Russian, a grammar of Modern Hebrew (1990; second edition 2009). She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker who has since died) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge University Press, 2003), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages.Other books include Classifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000, paperback 2003), Language Contact in Amazonia (2002) and Evidentiality (2004, paperback 2006), all published by OUP. She is co-editor with R. M. W. Dixon of the OUP series Explorations in Linguistic Typology, the fifth volume of which, The Semantics of Clause Linking, appeared in 2009.

• 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. The 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 ; References ; Index of Languages ; Index of Authors ; Subject Index

What makes this book an outstanding source for understanding of contact-induced language change is, first, that it constitutes one of the most comprehensive studies that are available on the impact of language contact on a particular group of languages, and, second, that it describes in detail the magnitude of areal diffusion and its implications for grammatical categorization. It is by now widely accepted that in situations of intense language contact virtually any linguistic phenomena can be transferred from one language to another; what the author reveals in this book is first how contact can affect almost the entire structure of grammatical categorization and, second, that rather than leading to simplification, grammatical transfer has the effect that the grammar of the languages involved becomes more complex. It is hoped that this book will serve as a model for future work on language contact in other parts of the world.