It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This s

This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change. The authors

This volume serves to illustrate the promising insights to be gained when cross-fertilizing Cognitive Linguistics and contact linguistics, which each hold cruci

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