Contact Linguistics: Some introductory readings

  • Bakker, Peter & Matras, Yaron (Eds.). 2003. The mixed language debate: theoretical and empirical advances. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Bakker, Peter & Mous, Maarten (Eds.). 1994. Mixed languages. 15 case studies in language intertwining. Amsterdam: IFOTT.
  • Clyne, Michael. 2003. Dynamics of language contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Holm, John. 2000. An introduction to pidgins and creoles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Milroy, Lesley & Muysken, Pieter (Eds.). 1995. One speaker, two languages. Cross-disciplinary perspectives on code-switching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Muysken, Pieter. 2000. Bilingual speech. A typology of code-mixing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Myers-Scotton, Carol. 2006. Multiple voices. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Romaine, Suzanne. 1995. Bilingualism. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Sebba, Mark. 1997. Contact languages: pidgins and creoles. London: MacMillan.
  • Thomason, Sarah Grey & Kaufman, Terrence. 1988. Language contact, creolization and genetic linguistics. Oxford/Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Thomason, Sarah Grey. 1997. Contact languages: a wider perspective. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  • Wei, Li. 2000. The bilingualism reader. London: Routledge.
  • Winford, Donald. 2003. An introduction to contact linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.