1. Introduction -- 2. The Roots of Language Contact -- 3. Explaining the Models and Their Uses -- 4. Considering Problematic Codeswitching Data and Other Approaches -- 5. Convergence and Attrition -- 6. Lexical Borrowing, Split (Mixed) Languages, and Creole Formation -- 7. Concluding Remarks: The Out of Sight in Contact Linguistics
Summary
"Contact Linguistics is a critical investigation of what happens to the grammars of languages when bilingual speakers use both their languages in the same clause. It consolidates earlier insights and presents the new theoretical and empirical work of a scholar whose ideas have had a fundamental impact on the field. It also shows that bilingual data offer a revealing window on the structure of the language faculty."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-329) and indexes
