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Klappentext 'Language contact' occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each other. This book is an introduction to the subject! covering individual and societal multilingualism! the acquisition of two or more languages from birth! second language acquisition in adulthood! language change! linguistic typology and language processing. 'Matras does indeed succeed in his stated goal of bringing a much-needed emphasis on the individual bilingual speaker back to language contact theory.' Journal of Sociolinguistics Zusammenfassung 'Language contact' occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each other. This book is an introduction to the subject! covering individual and societal multilingualism! the acquisition of two or more languages from birth! second language acquisition in adulthood! language change! linguistic typology and language processing. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. An emerging multilingual repertoire; 3. Societal multilingualism; 4. Acquiring and maintaining a bilingual repertoire; 5. Crossing the boundaries: codeswitching in conversation; 6. The replication of linguistic 'matter'; 7. Lexical borrowing; 8. Grammatical and phonological borrowing; 9. Converging structures: pattern replication; 10. Contact languages; 11. Outlook.
