Language contact - the linguistic and social outcomes of two or
more languages coming into contact with each other - starts with
the emergence of multilingual populations. Multilingualism
involving plurilingualism can have various consequences beyond
borrowing, interference, and code-mixing and -switching, including
the emergence of lingua francas and new language varieties, as well
as language endangerment and loss. Bringing together contributions
from an international team of scholars, this Handbook - the second
in a two-volume set - engages the reader with the manifold aspects
of multilingualism and provides state-of-the-art research on the
impact of population structure on language contact. It begins with
an introduction that presents the history of the scholarship on the
subject matter. The chapters then cover various processes and
theoretical issues associated with multilingualism embedded in
specific population structures worldwide as well as their outcomes.
It is essential reading for anybody interested in how people behave
linguistically in multilingual or multilectal settings.
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