Lisa Lim is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Language and Communication programme at the University of Hong Kong. She co-edited The Typology of Asian Englishes (2009) and English in Multilingual, Globalising Asia (2009). She has developed the online resource LinguisticMinorities.HK, for which she won the Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award 2014. Umberto Ansaldo is Professor in Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. His book Contact Languages: Ecology and Evolution (Cambridge, 2009) garnered the 2010 faculty research output award. He is co-editor of the Creole Language Library and editor-in-chief of Language Sciences.

• 1. Perspectives on contact; 2. Contact and code choice; 3. Contact and creole formation; 4. Contact and language evolution; 5. Contact and ecology; 6. Contact and shift; 7. Contact and globalisation; 8. Reflections and future directions.

'Well-informed, timely, and unique in its focus on a wide variety of language contacts in an ever more globalized Asia.' Armin Schwegler, University of California, Irvine