The Handbook of Language Contact -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Language Contact: Reconsideration and Reassessment -- Part I Contact and Linguistics -- 1 Contact Explanations in Linguistics -- 2 Genetic Classification and Language Contact -- 3 Contact, Convergence, and Typology -- 4 Contact and Grammaticalization -- 5 Language Contact and Grammatical Theory -- 6 Computational Models and Language Contact -- Part II Contact and Change -- 7 Contact and Language Shift -- 8 Contact and Borrowing -- 9 Contact and Code-Switching -- 10 Contact and Dialectology -- 11 Contact and New Varieties -- 12 Contact and Change: Pidgins and Creoles -- Part III Contact and Society -- 13 Scenarios for Language Contact -- 14 Ethnic Identity and Linguistic Contact -- 15 Contact and Sociolinguistic Typology -- 16 Contact and Language Death -- 17 Fieldwork in Contact Situations -- Part IV Case Studies of Contact -- 18 Macrofamilies, Macroareas, and Contact -- 19 Contact and Prehistory: The Indo-European Northwest -- 20 Contact and the History of Germanic Languages -- 21 Contact and the Early History of English -- 22 Contact and the Development of American English -- 23 Contact Englishes and Creoles in the Caribbean -- 24 Contact and Asian Varieties of English -- 25 Contact and African Englishes -- 26 Contact and the Celtic Languages -- 27 Spanish and Portuguese in Contact -- 28 Contact and the Development of the Slavic Languages -- 29 Contact and the Finno-Ugric Languages -- 30 Language Contact in the Balkans -- 31 Contact and the Development of Arabic -- 32 Turkic Language Contacts -- 33 Contact and North American Languages -- 34 Language Contact in Africa: A Selected Review -- 35 Contact and Siberian Languages -- 36 Language Contact in South Asia -- 37 Language Contact and Chinese -- 38 Contact and Indigenous Languages in Australia.

39 Language Contact in the New Guinea Region -- 40 Contact Languages of the Pacific -- Author Index.