Raymond Hickey is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Duisburg and Essen, Department of Anglophone Studies, Germany. His main areas of research are varieties of English, focused on Irish English, and general questions of language contact, shift, and change. He has written several books, including Listening to the Past, Audio Records of Accents of English (2017), Sociolinguistics in Ireland (2016), and A Dictionary of Varieties of English (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), and has published numerous articles on various issues within linguistics, as well as producing an electronic corpus of Irish English.

Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xvii
Language Contact and Linguistic Research 1
Raymond Hickey
Part I - Contact, Contact Studies, and Linguistics 31
1 Contact Explanations in Linguistics 33
Sarah Thomason
2 Contact, Bilingualism, and Diglossia 51
Lotfi Sayahi
3 Language Contact and Change through Child First Language Acquisition 67
Carmel O'Shannessy and Lucinda Davidson
4 Contact and Grammaticalization 93
Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva
5 Contact and Language Convergence 113
Anthony P. Grant
6 Contact and Linguistic Typology 129
Oliver Bond, Helen Sims-Williams, and Matthew Baerman
7 Contact and Language Shift 149
Raymond Hickey
8 Contact and Lexical Borrowing 169
Philip Durkin
9 Contact and Code-Switching 181
Penelope Gardner-Chloros
10 Contact and Mixed Languages 201
Peter Bakker
11 Contact and Sociolinguistic Variation 221
Maya Ravindranath Abtahian and Jonathan Kasstan
12 Contact and New Varieties 241
Paul Kerswill
13 Contact in the City 261
Heike Wiese
14 Linguistic Landscapes and Language Contact 281
Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, and Siu-Lun Lee
Part II - Case Studies of Contact 301
15 Contact and Early Indo-European in Europe 303
Bridget Drinka
16 Contact and the History of Germanic Languages 323
Paul Roberge
17 Contact in the History of English 345
Robert McColl Millar
18 Contact and the Development of American English 361
Joseph C. Salmons and Thomas Purnell
19 Contact and African Englishes 385
Rajend Mesthrie
20 Contact and Caribbean Creoles 403
Edgar W. Schneider and Raymond Hickey
21 Contact and the Romance Languages 425
John Charles Smith
22 Contact and Spanish in the Pacific 453
Eeva Sippola
23 Contact and Portuguese-Lexified Creoles 469
Hugo C. Cardoso
24 Contact and the Celtic Languages 489
Joseph F. Eska
25 Contact and the Slavic Languages 501
Lenore A. Grenoble
26 Contact and the Finno-Ugric Languages 519
Johanna Laakso
27 Language Contact in the Balkans 537
Brian D. Joseph
28 Turkic Language Contacts 551
Lars Johanson, Éva Á. Csató, and Birsel Karakoc
29 Contact and Afroasiatic Languages 571
Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay
30 Contact and North American Languages 593
Marianne Mithun
31 Contact and Mayan Languages 613
Danny Law
32 Contact and South American Languages 625
Lyle Campbell, Thiago Chacon, and John Elliott
33 Contact among African Languages 649
Klaus Beyer
34 Contact and Siberian Languages 669
Brigitte Pakendorf
35 Language Contact: Sino-Russian 689
Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Natalia Gurian, and Sergei Karpenko
36 Language Contact and Australian Languages 717
Jill Vaughan and Debbie Loakes
37 Contact Languages of the Pacific 741
Jeff Siegel
Index 763