Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors.
Preface.


Language Contact: Reconsideration and Reassessment
(Raymond Hickey).


Part I Contact and Linguistics.


1 Contact Explanations in Linguistics (Sarah
Thomason).


2 Genetic Classification and Language Contact (Michael
Noonan).


3 Contact, Convergence, and Typology (Yaron
Matras).


4 Contact and Grammaticalization (Bernd Heine and
Tania Kuteva).


5 Language Contact and Grammatical Theory (Karen P.
Corrigan).


6 Computational Models and Language Contact (April
McMahon).


Part II Contact and Change.


7 Contact and Language Shift (Raymond
Hickey).


8 Contact and Borrowing (Donald
Winford).


9 Contact and Code-Switching (Penelope
Gardner-Chloros).


10 Contact and Dialectology (David
Britain).


11 Contact and New Varieties (Paul
Kerswill).


12 Contact and Change: Pidgins and Creoles (John
Holm).


Part III Contact and Society.


13 Scenarios for Language Contact (Pieter
Muysken).


14 Ethnic Identity and Linguistic Contact (Carmen
Fought).


15 Contact and Sociolinguistic Typology (Peter
Trudgill).


16 Contact and Language Death (Suzanne
Romaine).


17 Fieldwork in Contact Situations (Claire
Bowern).


Part IV Case Studies of Contact.


18 Macrofamilies, Macroareas, and Contact (Johanna
Nichols).


19 Contact and Prehistory: The Indo-European Northwest
(Theo Vennemann).


20 Contact and the History of Germanic Languages (Paul
Roberge).


21 Contact and the Early History of English (Markku
Filppula).


22 Contact and the Development of American English
(Joseph C. Salmons and Thomas C. Purnell).


23 Contact Englishes and Creoles in the Caribbean
(Edgar W. Schneider).


24 Contact and Asian Varieties of English (Umberto
Ansaldo).


25 Contact and African Englishes (Rajend
Mesthrie).


26 Contact and the Celtic Languages (Joseph F.
Eska).


27 Spanish and Portuguese in Contact (John M.
Lipski).


28 Contact and the Development of the Slavic Languages
(Lenore A. Grenoble).


29 Contact and the Finno-Ugric Languages (Johanna
Laakso).


30 Language Contact in the Balkans (Brian D.
Joseph).


31 Contact and the Development of Arabic (Kees
Versteegh).


32 Turkic Language Contacts (Lars
Johanson).


33 Contact and North American Languages (Marianne
Mithun).


34 Language Contact in Africa: A Selected Review (G.
Tucker Childs).


35 Contact and Siberian Languages (Brigitte
Pakendorf).


36 Language Contact in South Asia (Harold F.
Schiffman).


37 Language Contact and Chinese (Stephen
Matthews).


38 Contact and Indigenous Languages in Australia
(Patrick McConvell).


39 Language Contact in the New Guinea Region (William
A. Foley).


40 Contact Languages of the Pacific (Jeff
Siegel).


Author Index.


Subject Index.

About the Author

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). He has also published over 80 articles on various issues within linguistics and produced an electronic corpus of Irish English.

Reviews

?This volume represents a welcome addition to the
literature on language contact, assembling contributions from
international experts to offer an extensive resource which
encompasses a broad range of language contact
research.?  (The Linguist List, 12 April
2014)


"Despite its century-long history, contact linguistics has
received unprecedented attention in the past decades, and it is in
this context that one must view the publication of ''The handbook
of contact linguistics'' (henceforth HLC), edited by Raymond Hickey
for the Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series. While a handbook
is essentially a reference work aimed at introducing particular
concepts for a given discipline, it is also, by its encompassing
nature, an opportunity to capture the current state of that
discipline and the directions in which it is moving." (The
Linguist, 6 January 2012)