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This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.

This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents cutting-edge research by distinguished scholars in the field as well as by highly talented ne

Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded introduction to contact linguistics. Rather than taking a traditional focus on the

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

2 Changes to the lexicon -- Introduction -- 2.1 Gaining words - lexical addition -- 2.1.1 Compounding -- 2.1.2 Affixation -- 2.1.3 Backformation -- 2.1.4 Conver