Description:
This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include child and adult bilingualism and multilingualism, contact languages, borrowing and contact-induced typological change, code switching in conversation, societal multilingualism, bilingual language processing, and various other topics related to language contact. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation, and includes contributions from a variety of approaches.
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"This collection forms an exhaustive volume on contact languages in a way that not only thoroughly summarizes and challenges traditional theories and models pertaining to this field of study, but also provides newer approaches to analyzing contact languages, their origins, and methods of classification, and as such, lays the framework for further investigation on contact languages."
Farah Ali in: www.linguistlist.org 08/2017
This is an important book, which should be consulted by all scholars of language contact for the state of art on the study of extraordinary/exceptional results due to intensive and unusual language contacts. Creoles are amog these unusual cases, but they are hardly the only kind; the up-to-the-minute chapters here on pidgins, mixed languages, and multiethnoletics ought now be treated as gold standard references."
John McWorther in: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34/1 (2019), 171-177