Language Contact and Contact Languages

Abstract

1. Introduction. Language contact: Constraints and common paths of contact induced language change (by Siemund, Peter) 2. Part I. Typology 3. Inflectional morphology and language contact, with special reference to mixed languages (by Comrie, Bernard) 4. Contact-induced word order change without word order change (by Heine, Bernd) 5. Remodeling grammar: Copying, conventionalization, grammaticalization (by Johanson, Lars) 6. Contact-induced change: The case of the Tamangic languages (by Noonan, Michael) 7. Total reduplication vs. echo-word formation in language contact situations (by Stolz, Thomas) 8. Part II. Diachrony 9. Variability within the French interrogative system: A diachronic perspective (by Elsig, Martin) 10. Verb-late word order in Old Swedish subordinate clauses: Loan, Ausbau phenomenon, or both? (by Hoder, Steffen) 11. Contact-induced phonological changes in the Catalan spoken in Barcelona (by Lleo, Conxita) 12. Prepositional aspect constructions in Hiberno-English (by Pietsch, Lukas) 13. Part III. Acquisition 14. Acquisition of Basque in successive bilingualism: Data from oral storytelling (by Almgren, Margareta) 15. Interrogative inversion in non-standard varieties of English (by Hilbert, Michaela) 16. Part IV. Translation 17. Linguistic variation through language contact in translation (by Baumgarten, Nicole) 18. Empirical studies of translations as a mode of language contact - explicitness of lexicogrammatical encoding as a relevant dimension (by Steiner, Erich)