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It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This s

Languages in contact are characterized by constant and rapid change; thus, they provide a testing ground for hypotheses about processes of linguistic change. In

Most societies in today's world are multilingual. 'Language contact' occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each oth

The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies Language con

Open publication The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact. Contact-i