This comprehensive new work provides extensive evidence for the essential role of language contact as a primary trigger for change. Unique in breadth, it traces
History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in N
The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies Language con
The study of languages in contact is an ever-relevant topic in linguistics, especially at present times when increasing globalization leads to a number of new c