Introduction -- Language contacts between Southern Sami and Scandinavian -- A contact feature in the phonology of a northern Norwegian dialect -- The social and linguistic development of Scandoromani -- Language contact in the Pacific: Samoan influence on Tokelauan -- "You can never tell where a word comes from": language contact in a diffuse setting -- The substratum in grammar and discourse -- Dialect socialization in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Spitsbergen): a fruitful chaos -- Ethnolinguistic minorities within the European community: migrants as ethnolinguistic minorities -- Isolation, contact, and lexical variation in a tribal setting -- Language contact in focused situations -- Dialect typology and social structure -- Borrowing and non-borrowing in Walapai -- Subject Index.