This unique collection of articles in honor of Marianne Mithun represents the very latest in research on language contact and language change in the Indigenous

Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our

In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the wor

This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Sw

When Columbus arrived in the Americas there were, it is believed, as many as 2,000 distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues spoken in the western hemisphere, e