Based on the author's fieldwork, this title contains a detailed report on language contact in Switzerland in the first half of the 20th century, especially alon

This remains the fundamental base for studies of multilingual communities and language shift. Weinreich laid out the concepts, principles and issues that govern

This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and multi-ethnolects. It also approaches contact languages from tw

This volume provides new insights into various issues on prosody in contact situations, contact referring here to the L2 acquisition process as well as to situa

Discusses disparate findings to examine the dynamics of contact between languages in an immigrant context.