Language contact: theoretical and empirical studies

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Front matter --; Preface --; Contents --; 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 --; Backmatter / Bergsland, Knut --; Bull, Tove --; Hancock, Ian --; Hovdhaugen, Even --; Page, Robert B. Le --; Mithun, Marianne --; Mæhlum, Brit --; Nelde, Peter H. --; Rischel, Jørgen --; Tabouret-Keller, Andrée --; Trudgill, Peter --; Winter, Werner --