Most societies in today's world are multilingual. 'Language contact' occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each oth

The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies Language con

Every language has been influenced in some way by other languages. In many cases, this influence is reflected in words which have been absorbed from other langu

The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguisti