The Handbook of Language Contact

Notes on Contributors viii
 
Preface xviii
 
Language Contact: Reconsideration and Reassessment 1
Raymond Hickey
 
Part I Contact and Linguistics 29
 
1 Contact Explanations in Linguistics 31
Sarah Thomason
 
2 Genetic Classification and Language Contact 48
Michael Noonan
 
3 Contact, Convergence, and Typology 66
Yaron Matras
 
4 Contact and Grammaticalization 86
Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva
 
5 Language Contact and Grammatical Theory 106
Karen P. Corrigan
 
6 Computational Models and Language Contact 128
April McMahon
 
Part II Contact and Change 149
 
7 Contact and Language Shift 151
Raymond Hickey
 
8 Contact and Borrowing 170
Donald Winford
 
9 Contact and Code-Switching 188
Penelope Gardner-Chloros
 
10 Contact and Dialectology 208
David Britain
 
11 Contact and New Varieties 230
Paul Kerswill
 
12 Contact and Change: Pidgins and Creoles 252
John Holm
 
Part III Contact and Society 263
 
13 Scenarios for Language Contact 265
Pieter Muysken
 
14 Ethnic Identity and Linguistic Contact 282
Carmen Fought
 
15 Contact and Sociolinguistic Typology 299
Peter Trudgill
 
16 Contact and Language Death 320
Suzanne Romaine
 
17 Fieldwork in Contact Situations 340
Claire Bowern
 
Part IV Case Studies of Contact 359
 
18 Macrofamilies, Macroareas, and Contact 361
Johanna Nichols
 
19 Contact and Prehistory: The Indo-European Northwest 380
Theo Vennemann
 
20 Contact and the History of Germanic Languages 406
Paul Roberge
 
21 Contact and the Early History of English 432
Markku Filppula
 
22 Contact and the Development of American English 454
Joseph C. Salmons and Thomas C. Purnell
 
23 Contact Englishes and Creoles in the Caribbean 478
Edgar W. Schneider
 
24 Contact and Asian Varieties of English 498
Umberto Ansaldo
 
25 Contact and

Raymond Hickey is Professor of Linguistics at Essen University, Germany. His main areas of research are varieties of English (especially Irish English) and general questions of language contact, shift, and change as well as computer corpus processing. He has published widely, the most recent titles being A Sound Atlas of Irish English (2004), Legacies of Colonial English (2004), Dublin English: Evolution and Change (2005), Irish English: History and Present-Day Forms (2007), and Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and Change (2010).

"This volume represents a welcome addition to theliterature on language contact, assembling contributions frominternational experts to offer an extensive resource whichencompasses a broad range of language contactresearch." ( The Linguist List , 12 April2014)