History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in N

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The appearance of Uriel Weinreich's Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1953) marked a milestone in the study of multilingualism and language contact.

The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies Language con

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