The contributions in the edited volume deal with different aspects of language contact which were hitherto not or not sufficiently considered in linguistic research.
The impact of the colonial languages Polish and German on the structures of the written varieties of Latvian is surveyed and compared. The opposite case – the impact of indigenous languages of Nigeria and Ghana on the colonial language English – is scrutinized from the perspective of the nexus of language and culture. Language contact in a diasporic context is examined in the case study on Jordanian Chechen. The...
The contributions in the edited volume deal with different aspects of language contact which were hitherto not or not sufficiently considered in l...