The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact 2 Volume Hardback Set

This handbook brings together state-of-the-art research on language contact from a team of international scholars.

Salikoko Mufwene (Edited by), Anna Maria Escobar (Edited by)

9781107174870, Cambridge University Press

, published 30 June 2022

850 pages
25 x 17.4 x 8.6 cm, 2.7 kg

'With its global scope and inclusive approach, this work offers the most comprehensive overview of language contact to date. With contributions from leading specialists in each topic and region under the leadership of Mufwene and Escobar, the Handbook provides authoritative and state-of-the-art coverage of a vibrant and rapidly evolving field.' Stephen Matthews, University of Hong Kong

Language contact - the linguistic and social outcomes of two or more languages coming into contact with each other - has been pervasive in human history. Whether or not we are aware of it, we as humans always deal with language contact. Bringing together contributions from an international team of scholars, this two-volume Handbook represents the state-of-the-art in the field of language contact. The first volume focuses on population movement and language change, and the second volume looks at multilingualism and population structure. Each of the two volumes start with an introduction outlining the history of the research in the field. They are then organised into thematic parts, and cover the processes, theoretical issues and outcomes involved in a range of language contact situations worldwide. Easy-to-read yet wide-ranging in scope, the Handbook is essential reading for anybody interested in how people behave linguistically in multilingual or multilectal settings.

List of contributors
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Introduction: 1. Introduction: language contact in population structure
Part I. Multilingualism: 2. Societal Multilingualism
3. Individual bilingualism
4. Codeswitching and translanguaging
5. Urban contact dialects
6. Multilingualism and super-diversity: some historical and contrastive perspectives
7. Multilingualism and language contact in signing communities
8. Multilingualism in India, Southeast Asia, and China
9. Monolingualism vs. multilingualism in Western Europe: language regimes in France, Spain, and the United Kingdom
Part II. Contact, Emergence, and Language Classification: 10. Perspectives on creole formation
11. Non-European pidgins in early European colonial explorations and trade: mobilian jargon and maritime Polynesian pidgin in contrast
12. Mixed languages
13. Reconstructing the sociolinguistic history of expansion languages in the Americas: a research program
14. On the idiolectal nature of lexical and phonological contact: spaniards, nahuas, and Yoruba in the new world
Part III. Lingua Francas: 15. The emergence of lingua Francas
16. Colonization and the emergence and spread of indigenous lingua francas in Africa, the Americas and Asia
Part IV. Language Vitality: 17. Language endangerment, loss, and reclamation today
18. Contact and shift: colonization and urbanization in the Arctic
19. The Indian diaspora: language maintenance and loss
20. Quechua expansion during the Inca and colonial periods
21. Indigenous and immigrant languages in the US: language contact, change and survival
Part V. Contact and Language Structures: 22. Structural outcomes of language contact
23. The emergence of Andean Spanish: against the odds
24. Contact between English and Norman in the Channel Islands
Author index
Subject index. List of contributors
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Introduction
1. Language contact: what a rich and intellectually stimulating history since the late 19th century!
Part I. Language Contact and Genetic Linguistics: 2. Language contact and historical linguistics
3. The chinese expansion and language coexistence in modern China
4. Tracing language contact in Africa's past
5. Populations in contact: linguistic, archaeological, and genomic evidence for indo-european diffusion
6. The impact of autochthonous languages on bantu language variation: a comparative view on southern and central Africa
Part II. Linguistic Areas: 7. The Balkans
8. The amazon basin: linguistic areas and language contact
9. Migration and trade as drivers of language spread and contact in indigenous Latin America
10. Language contact in South Asia
Part III. Language Spread: 11. The geographic and demographic expansion of Malay
12. Geographic and demographic spread of Swahili
13. Arabic language contact
Part IV. Emergence and Spread of Some European Languages: 14. The emergence and evolution of romance languages in Europe and the Americas
15. The expansion and evolution of Portuguese
16. French and English in contact in North America
17. French in African contact settings
18. The geographical and demographic expansion of English
Part V. Language Diasporas: 19. Diasporas: an overview
20. Labor migrations: language change in communities and Diasporas
21. The Korean diaspora
22. The Chinese diaspora: language maintenance and loss
23. The diachrony of Yiddish and judaeo-spanish as contact languages
Author index
Subject index.

Subject Areas: Historical & comparative linguistics [CFF], Sociolinguistics [CFB]