Contents -- Preface -- Notes on the Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1 GRAMMARS IN CONTACT: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE -- 1 Why can languages be similar? -- 2 How languages affect each other: the effects of language contact -- 3 Contact-induced change and its mechanisms -- 4 Making diffusion possible -- 5 What can we conclude? -- 6 How this volume is organized -- References -- 2 GRAMMATICAL DIFFUSION IN AUSTRALIA: FREE AND BOUND PRONOUNS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Syntactic orientation -- 3 Free and bound pronouns -- 4 Parameters of variation for bound pronouns -- 5 The Wemba-Wemba language (Ta1) -- 6 The Western Desert language -- 7 Discussion -- References -- 3 HOW LONG DO LINGUISTIC AREAS LAST?: WESTERN NILOTIC GRAMMARS IN CONTACT -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Early areal adaptations -- 3 Luwo suffixes -- 4 Grammar and meaning in Labwor -- 5 Cultural change, but no language shift: rebuilding archetypical features in Bor -- 6 Does contact really make grammars more similar? -- References -- 4 GRAMMARS IN CONTACT IN THE VOLTA BASIN (WEST AFRICA): ON CONTACT-INDUCED GRAMMATICAL CAHANGE IN LIKPE -- 1 The setting -- 2 The sociolinguistic and historical context of Likpe -- 3 Likpe and Ewe: typological profiles compared -- 4 Constructions borrowed from Ewe -- 5 Areal patterns -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 5 BASQUE IN CONTACT WITH ROMANCE LANGUAGES -- 1 Sociolinguistic description of the contact situation -- 2 Borrowing of forms and borrowing of patterns -- 3 Conclusions -- References -- 6 LANGUAGE CONTACT AND CONVERGENCE IN EAST TIMOR: THE CASE OF TETUN DILI -- 1 Languages of East Timor and East Timor as a linguistic area -- 2 Language Contact Situation -- 3 Grammars in Contact -- References -- 7 LANGUAGE CONTACT AND CONVERGENCE IN PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN -- 1 Sociohistorical backdrop -- 2 English borrowings into Pennsylvania German.

3 The English of the Canadian Mennonites -- 4 Discussion: why these patterns of interference? -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 8 BALKANIZING THE BALKAN SPRACHBUND: A CLOSER LOOK AT GRAMMATICAL PERMEABILITY AND FEATURE DISTRIBUTION -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Balkans and Balkanization -- 3 The Balkans -- 4 Sociolinguistic factors: religion and prestige -- 5 Balkanisms -- 6 Balkan futurity and referentiality -- 7 Conclusions -- References -- 9 CANTONESE GRAMMAR IN AREAL PERSPECTIVE -- 1 Historical background -- 2 Areal typology -- 3 South-East Asian areal features in Cantonese -- 4 Discussion and conclusions -- References -- 10 SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS IN THE VAUPÉS LINGUISTIC AREA -- 1 Language contact and multilingualism in the linguistic area of the Vaupés River Basin -- 2 The Vaupés Basin as a linguistic and cultural area -- 3 Tucanoan and Arawak: a typological comparison -- 4 The East Tucanoan impact on Tariana: an illustration -- 5 Grammatical relations in Tariana, in the light of the Vaupés languages -- 6 Theoretical implications of the Vaupés language situation-what can we conclude? -- References -- 11 THE VAUPÉS MELTING POT: TUCANOAN INFLUENCE ON HUP -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The role of the Hupd'(omitted) h in the Vaupés -- 3 Phonology -- 4 Morphosyntax -- 5 Lexicon and discourse -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 12 THE QUECHUA IMPACT IN AMUESHA, AN ARAWAK LANGUAGE OF THE PERUVIAN AMAZON -- 1 Geographical and historical setting -- 2 Linguistic affiliation of Amuesha -- 3 Quechua as a source language -- 4 The Quechua I layer in Amuesha -- 5 The Inca layer in Amuesha -- 6 Impact and nature of Quechua loans in Amuesha -- 7 Phonological considerations -- 8 Structural diffusion -- 9 Final considerations -- References -- 13 FEELING THE NEED: THE BORROWING OF CARIBAN FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES INTO MAWAYANA (ARAWAK) -- 1 Introduction.

2 The Mawayana, past and present -- 3 Linguistic profile of Mawayana -- 4 Contact-induced change in Mawayana -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Glossary of Terms -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Index of languages, language families, and linguistic areas -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.