Description: This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English.
Brief description: Marianne Hundt is Full Professor of English Linguistics in the English Department at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Review Quotes: 'This multifaceted volume demonstrates the important role of language contact and dialect contact in the development of English and its many current varieties, providing new insights into questions of who were the agents of change and what were the processes involved. The list of authors of the 16 chapters reads like a who's who in contact linguistics and the history of English. Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in these areas'. --Professor Jeff Siegel, University of New England (Australia)