List of contributors; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Introduction: 1. Introduction: language contact in population structure; Part I. Multilingualism: 2. Societal Multilingualism; 3. Individual bilingualism; 4. Codeswitching and translanguaging; 5. Urban contact dialects; 6. Multilingualism and super-diversity: some historical and contrastive perspectives; 7. Multilingualism and language contact in signing communities; 8. Multilingualism in India, Southeast Asia, and China; 9. Monolingualism vs. multilingualism in Western Europe: language regimes in France, Spain, and the United Kingdom; Part II. Contact, Emergence, and Language Classification: 10. Perspectives on creole formation; 11. Non-European pidgins in early European colonial explorations and trade: mobilian jargon and maritime Polynesian pidgin in contrast; 12. Mixed languages; 13. Reconstructing the sociolinguistic history of expansion languages in the Americas: a research program; 14. On the idiolectal nature of lexical and phonological contact: spaniards, nahuas, and Yoruba in the new world; Part III. Lingua Francas: 15. The emergence of lingua Francas; 16. Colonization and the emergence and spread of indigenous lingua francas in Africa, the Americas and Asia; Part IV. Language Vitality: 17. Language endangerment, loss, and reclamation today; 18. Contact and shift: colonization and urbanization in the Arctic; 19. The Indian diaspora: language maintenance and loss; 20. Quechua expansion during the Inca and colonial periods; 21. Indigenous and immigrant languages in the US: language contact, change and survival; Part V. Contact and Language Structures: 22. Structural outcomes of language contact; 23. The emergence of Andean Spanish: against the odds; 24. Contact between English and Norman in the Channel Islands; Author index; Subject index. List of contributors; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Introduction; 1. Language contact: what a rich and intellectually stimulating history since the late 19th century!; Part I. Language Contact and Genetic Linguistics: 2. Language contact and historical linguistics; 3. The chinese expansion and language coexistence in modern China; 4. Tracing language contact in Africa's past; 5. Populations in contact: linguistic, archaeological, and genomic evidence for indo-european diffusion; 6. The impact of autochthonous languages on bantu language variation: a comparative view on southern and central Africa; Part II. Linguistic Areas: 7. The Balkans; 8. The amazon basin: linguistic areas and language contact; 9. Migration and trade as drivers of language spread and contact in indigenous Latin America; 10. Language contact in South Asia; Part III. Language Spread: 11. The geographic and demographic expansion of Malay; 12. Geographic and demographic spread of Swahili; 13. Arabic language contact; Part IV. Emergence and Spread of Some European Languages: 14. The emergence and evolution of romance languages in Europe and the Americas; 15. The expansion and evolution of Portuguese; 16. French and English in contact in North America; 17. French in African contact settings; 18. The geographical and demographic expansion of English; Part V. Language Diasporas: 19. Diasporas: an overview; 20. Labor migrations: language change in communities and Diasporas; 21. The Korean diaspora; 22. The Chinese diaspora: language maintenance and loss; 23. The diachrony of Yiddish and judaeo-spanish as contact languages; Author index; Subject index.