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The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverageof the major issues in this field - ranging from the value ofcontact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration,to dialectology - combining new research from a team ofglobally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerouslanguages.
An authoritative reference work exploring the major issues inthe field of language contact: the study of how language changeswhen speakers of distinct speech varieties interact Brings together 40 specially-commissioned essays by aninternational team of scholars Examines language contact
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The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverageof the major issues in this field - ranging from the value ofcontact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration,to dialectology - combining new research from a team ofglobally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerouslanguages.

An authoritative reference work exploring the major issues inthe field of language contact: the study of how language changeswhen speakers of distinct speech varieties interact
Brings together 40 specially-commissioned essays by aninternational team of scholars
Examines language contact in societies which have significantimmigration populations, and includes a fascinating cross-sectionof case studies drawing on languages across the world
Accessibly structured into sections exploring the place ofcontact studies within linguistics as a whole; the value of contactstudies for research into language change; and language contact inthe context of work on language and society
Explores a broad range of topics, making it an excellentresource for both faculty and students across a variety of fieldswithin linguistics
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Autorenporträt
Raymond Hickey is Professor of Linguistics at Essen University, Germany. His main areas of research are varieties of English (especially Irish English) and general questions of language contact, shift, and change as well as computer corpus processing. He has published widely, the most recent titles being A Sound Atlas of Irish English (2004), Legacies of Colonial English (2004), Dublin English: Evolution and Change (2005), Irish English: History and Present-Day Forms (2007), and Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and Change (2010).