Language Contact

Most societies in today's world are multilingual. 'Language contact' occurs when speakers of diff...

Romani

Romani is a language of Indo-Aryan origin which is spoken in Europe by the people known as 'Gypsi...

Markedness and Language Change

'Markedness' is a central notion in linguistic theory. This book is the first to provide a co...

A Grammar of Domari

Domari is an Indo-Aryan language that is now highly endangered. Its speakers were traditionall...

I Met Lucky People

Contact Languages

This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, ...

Language Contact

Most societies in today's world are multilingual. 'Language contact' occurs when speakers of diff...

The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics

Romani is the first language, and family and community language, of upwards of 3-4 million peo...

The Mixed Language Debate

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of ...

Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Research on language universals and research on linguistic typology are not antagonistic, but ...

Contact Languages

This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and...