This book deals with the consequences of converging and diverging processes and their development in language contact situations. It provides insights into the

This book aims to provide a better understanding of convergence and non-convergence phenomena, such as divergence, from different theoretical perspectives. It b

Convergence, i.e. the increase of inter-systemic similarities, is usually considered the default development in language contact situations. This volume focuses

Die im Jahre 1905 von Gustav Gröber ins Leben gerufene Reihe der Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie zählt zu den renommiertesten Fachpublikat

Modern contact linguistics has primarily focused on contact between languages that are genetically unrelated and structurally distant. This compendium of articl