The Handbook of Language Contact

Raymond Hickey is Professor of Linguistics at Essen University, Germany. His main areas of research are varieties of English (especially Irish English) and general questions of language contact, shift, and change as well as computer corpus processing. He has published widely, the most recent titles being A Sound Atlas of Irish English (2004), Legacies of Colonial English (2004), Dublin English: Evolution and Change (2005), Irish English: History and Present-Day Forms (2007), and Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and Change (2010). He has also published over 80 articles on various issues within linguistics and produced an electronic corpus of Irish English.

Notes on Contributors. Preface. Language Contact: Reconsideration and Reassessment(Raymond Hickey). Part I Contact and Linguistics. 1 Contact Explanations in Linguistics (SarahThomason). 2 Genetic Classification and Language Contact (MichaelNoonan). 3 Contact, Convergence, and Typology (YaronMatras). 4 Contact and Grammaticalization (Bernd Heine andTania Kuteva). 5 Language Contact and Grammatical Theory (Karen P.Corrigan). 6 Computational Models and Language Contact (AprilMcMahon). Part II Contact and Change. 7 Contact and Language Shift (RaymondHickey). 8 Contact and Borrowing (DonaldWinford). 9 Contact and Code-Switching (PenelopeGardner-Chloros). 10 Contact and Dialectology (DavidBritain). 11 Contact and New Varieties (PaulKerswill). 12 Contact and Change: Pidgins and Creoles (JohnHolm). Part III Contact and Society. 13 Scenarios for Language Contact (PieterMuysken). 14 Ethnic Identity and Linguistic Contact (CarmenFought). 15 Contact and Sociolinguistic Typology (PeterTrudgill). 16 Contact and Language Death (SuzanneRomaine). 17 Fieldwork in Contact Situations (ClaireBowern). Part IV Case Studies of Contact. 18 Macrofamilies, Macroareas, and Contact (JohannaNichols). 19 Contact and Prehistory: The Indo-European Northwest(Theo Vennemann). 20 Contact and the History of Germanic Languages (PaulRoberge). 21 Contact and the Early History of English (MarkkuFilppula). 22 Contact and the Development of American English(Joseph C. Salmons and Thomas C. Purnell). 23 Contact Englishes and Creoles in the Caribbean(Edgar W. Schneider). 24 Contact and Asian Varieties of English (UmbertoAnsaldo). 25 Contact and African Englishes (RajendMesthrie). 26 Contact and the Celtic Languages (Joseph F.Eska). 27 Spanish and Portuguese in Contact (John M.Lipski). 28 Contact and the Development of the Slavic Languages(Lenore A. Grenoble). 29 Contact and the Finno-Ugric Languages (JohannaLaakso). 30 Language Contact in the Balkans (Brian D.Joseph). 31 Contact and the Development of Arabic (KeesVersteegh). 32 Turkic Language Contacts (LarsJohanson). 33 Contact and North American Languages (MarianneMithun). 34 Language Contact in Africa: A Selected Review (G.Tucker Childs). 35 Contact and Siberian Languages (BrigittePakendorf). 36 Language Contact in South Asia (Harold F.Schiffman). 37 Language Contact and Chinese (StephenMatthews). 38 Contact and Indigenous Languages in Australia(Patrick McConvell). 39 Language Contact in the New Guinea Region (WilliamA. Foley). 40 Contact Languages of the Pacific (JeffSiegel). Author Index. Subject Index.