Convergence and divergence in language contact situations (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009)
Mostly based on the contributions to a symposium held in October 2007 at the Hamburg Research Centre on Multilingualism
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Divergence, convergence, contact : challenges for the genealogical classification of languages / Georg Bossong -- Increases in complexity as a result of language contact / Östen Dahl -- Converging genetically related languages : endstation code mixing? / Kurt Braunmüller -- Converging languages, diverging varieties : innovative relativisation patterns in Old Swedish / Steffen Höder -- Converging verbal phrases in related languages : a case study from Faro-Danish and Danish-German language contact situations / Karoline H. Kühl & Hjalmar P. Petersen -- Convergence and divergence of communicative norms through language contact in translation / Viktor Becher, Juliane House & Svenja Kranich -- On the importance of spontaneous speech innovations in language contact situations / Robert E. Vann -- Gradient merging of vowels in Barcelona Catalan under the influence of Spanish / Susana Cortés, Conxita Lleó & Ariadna Benet -- Comparing the representation of iambs by monolingual German, monolingual Spanish, and bilingual German-Spanish children / Javier Arias & Conxita Lleó