The study of grammatical variation in language mixing has been at the core of research into bilingual language practices. Although various motivations have been

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

This book provides an in depth analysis of the different ways in which bilingual speakers switch from one language to another in the course of conversation. Thi

Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded introduction to contact linguistics. Rather than taking a traditional focus on the

Only 15 years ago bilingualism was somewhat outside the main debates in cognitive linguistics. Cognitive linguistics had, to a large extent, taken for granted t