The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established field of investigation in its own right and featuring 26 chapters, this handbook brings together a broad range of approaches to contact linguistics, including: experimental and observational approaches and formal theories; a focus on social and cognitive factors that impact the outcome of language contact situations and bilingual language processing; the emergence of new languages and speech varieties in contact situations, and contact linguistic phenomena in urban speech and linguistic landscapes. With contributions from an international range of leading and emerging scholars in their fields, the four sections of this text deal with methodological and theoretical approaches, the factors that condition and shape language contact, the impact of language contact on individuals, and language change, repertoires and formation. This handbook is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in language contact in particular regions of the world, including Anatolia, Eastern Polynesia, the Balkans, Asia, Melanesia, North America, and West Africa.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Evangelia Adamou and Yaron Matras Part 1. Methods and theoretical approaches 1) Processing multilingual data Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Jacqueline Serigos, and Gualberto A. Guzman 2) Language contact in the lab Paola E. Dussias, Judith F. Kroll, Melinda Fricke, and Michael A. Johns 3) A variationist perspective on language contact Shana Poplack 4) The 4-M model: different routes in production for different morphemes Janice L. Jake and Carol Myers-Scotton 5) Theoretical approaches to the grammar of codeswitching Jeff MacSwan 6) Usage-based approaches Ad Backus Part 2. Processes and dimensions 7) Social factors Kofi Yakpo 8) Language contact: pragmatic factors Peter Auer 9) Cognitive factors of language contact Kees de Bot and Lars Bulow 10) Typological factors Felicity Meakins 11) Cross-language contact in the developing grammars of bilingual children Jennifer Austin 12) First language attrition in the twenty-first century: How continued L1 contact in the digital age fuels language attrition theorizing Merel Keijzer Part 3. Outcomes 13) Borrowing Yaron Matras and Evangelia Adamou 14) Codeswitching and bilinguals’ grammars Rena Torres Cacoullos and Catherine E. Travis 15) Convergence Björn Wiemer 16) Creoles and pidgins: why the latter are not the ancestors of the former Salikoko S. Mufwene 17) Mixed Languages Carmel O’Shannessy 18) Linguistic landscape and urban multilingualism Carla Bagna, Monica Barni, and Martina Bellinzona 19) Urban youth speech styles in multilingual settings Margreet Dorleijn, Maarten Kossmann, and Jacomine Nortier Part 4. Linguistic areas 20) The Balkans Victor A. Friedman 21) Anatolia Anaïd Donabedian and Ioanna Sitaridou 22) Language contact in the Asian region Umberto Ansaldo and Lisa Lim 23) Eastern Polynesia Mary Walworth 24) Linguistic Melanesia Antoinette Schapper 25) Language contact in North America Marianne Mithun 26) Language contact in West Africa Friederike Lüpke and Rachel Watson