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Languages in contact

Index of SIL publications on Languages in contact listed by country.

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General works

• LEWIS, M. Paul, author. 2001. Language development in contact languages and language contact situations.
• LIPSKI, John M., author. 1987. "African influence on Hispanic dialects."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1996. Pan Asiatic linguistics: The 4th International Symposium on Languages and Linguistics, Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand—January 8-10, 1996.
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 2004. "Spanish loans in Chicahuaxtla Trique."
• MUFWENE, Salikoko S., author. 2000. "Language contact, evolution, and death: how ecology rolls the dice."
• NICOLLE, Alison; NICOLLE, Steve, authors. 2006. Review of: Contact linguistics: bilingual encounters and grammatical outcomes, by Carol Myers-Scotton.  
• PAYNE, David L., author. 1997. Review of: Mixed languages: 15 case studies in language intertwining, Peter Bakker and Maarten Mous, editors.
• ROSS, Malcolm, author. 1995. Review of: The formation of Afrikaans, by Paul T. Roberge.
• SAMARIN, William J., author. 1998. Review of: Mobilian jargon: Linguistic and sociohistorical aspects of a Native American Pidgin, by Samuel J. Drechsel.
• TONKIN, Humphrey, author. 1997. "Language as a social phenomenon: a perspective on the emergence of sociolinguistics."
• WISE, Mary Ruth, author. 2005. Review of: Language contact in Amazonia, by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald.  
• WISE, Mary Ruth, author. 2006. Review of: Dynamics of language contact: English and immigrant languages, by Michael Clyne.  

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Benin

• ROSS, Malcolm, author. 1996. Review of: The Yoruba koiné—its history and linguistic innovations, by J. Gbenga Fagborun.

Cameroon

• GFELLER, Elisabeth, author. 1990. L’emploi des langues dans un contexte multilingue.
• TRUDELL, Barbara, author. 2006. "Local agency in the development of minority languages: three language committees in Northwest Cameroon."

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• ARAALI, Bagamba Bukpa, author. 2007. A study of language shift in rural Africa: the Hema of the North-East of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ghana

• RING, J. Andrew, author. 1987. Planning for literacy: a sociolinguistic survey of multilingualism in Ghana.

Nigeria

• CROZIER, David H., author. 2005. Review of: Nigerian Pidgin in Lagos: Language contact, variation and change in an African urban setting, by Dagmar Deuber.
• ROSS, Malcolm, author. 1996. Review of: The Yoruba koiné—its history and linguistic innovations, by J. Gbenga Fagborun.
• STARK, John E., author. 2000. The role of oral literature in the dissemination of neologisms.  

Tanzania

• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2006. "Review of: The making of a mixed language: the case of Maˀa/Mbugu, by Maarten Mous."

Americas

Canada

• HUTTAR, George L., author. 1999. Review of: a language of our own: The genesis of Michif, the mixed Cree-French language of the Canadian Métis, by Peter Bakker.

Chile

• WEBER, Robert L., author. 1988. "Procesos fonológicos en la adquisición ‘naturalista’ del español por los rapa nui de la Isla de Pascua."

Guatemala

• COLLINS, Wesley M., author. 1985. "Algunos apuntes sobre tipos de contacto lingüístico en el area mam."
• LANGAN, Katherine, author. 1990. Language proficiency use and attitudes in Santo Tomas Chichicastenango: a study of language competition.
• STEVENSON, Paul S., author. 1990. Santa Maria Cauque: a case of Cakchiquel-Quiche language mixing.
• STEVENSON, Paul S., author. 1990. Santa Maria Cauque: un caso de mezcla de los idiomas Cakchiquel y Quiche.

Haiti

• HUTTAR, George L., author. 2000. Review of: Creole Genesis and the acquisition of grammar: the case of Haitian creole, by Claire LeFebvre.

Mexico

• DEDRICK, John M., author. 1977. "Spanish influence on Yaqui grammar?."
• HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1977. "Reversals of Copala Trique temporal metaphors through language contact."
• PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1989. "Isthmus Zapotec loans."
• WATSON, Richard L., author. 2001. Review of: a functional approach to linguistic change through language contact: the case of Spanish and Otomi (article from Working papers in functional grammar, no. 71), by Dik Bakker and Ewald Hekking.

Peru

• HINTZ, Daniel J., author. 2009. "Reordenamiento sintáctico en construcciones verbales analíticas del Quechua por el contacto con el Castellano."
• HINTZ, Diane M., author. 1996. "¿Adonde va /qa/? Cambio lingüístico: Un estudio sobre la manera de expresar las relaciones espaciales en el quechua de Ancash."  

Suriname

• HUTTAR, George L., author. 1985. Review of: De talen van Suriname: Achtergronden en ontwikkelingen, Eddy Charry, Geert Koefoed and Pieter Muysken, editors.

Asia

China

• FARROW, Craig, author. 2008. Review of: An Ili Salar vocabulary: introduction and a provisional Salar-English lexicon, by Abdurishid Yakup.  
• HUANG Yuanwei, author. 1997. "The interaction between Zhuang and the Yue (Cantonese) dialects."
• THURGOOD, Graham, author. 2006. "Sociolinguistics and contact-induced language change: Hainan Cham, Anong, and Phan Rang Cham."  
• ZHENG, Guoqiao, author. 1988. "The influences of Han on the Mulam language."

Indonesia

• GRIMES, Charles E., author. 1990. Contact-induced change in Austronesian languages.
• WALKER, Roland W., author. 1990. "Mencari suatu pola untuk meramalkan penerimaan keberaksaraan dalam bahasa daerah oleh kelompok-kelompok bahasa minoritas."
• WALKER, Roland W., author. 1993. "Language shift in Europe and Irian Jaya, Indonesia: Toward the heart of the matter."

Pakistan

• DECKER, Kendall D., author. 1992. Factors affecting language maintenance and shift in Chitral District, Pakistan.
• SABIR, A. Razzak, author. 2003. "Language contact in Balochistan (with special reference to Balochi and Brahui)."

Philippines

• BURTON, Scott L., author. 2003. "A case study of lexical borrowing between language families in the southern Philippines."
• DUHAYLUNGSOD, Levita; HYNDMAN, David C., authors. 1992. "Creeping resource exploitation in the Tboli homeland: Political ecology of the Tasaday hoax."
• GALLMAN, Andrew F., author. 1997. Proto East Mindanao and its internal relationships.
• GREGERSON, Kenneth J., author. 1986. Review of: Culture contact and language convergence, by A. Kemp Pallesen.
• HEADLAND, Thomas N., author. 1988. Review of: On the road to tribal extinction: depopulation, deculturation and adaptive well-being among the Batak of the Philippines, by James F. Eder.

Thailand

• PREECHA Sukgasame, author. 2005. "Phonological variations and changes due to language contact: a case study of consonants in four Kuai-Kui (Suai) dialects."  
• THOMAS, David D., author. 1989. "Linguistics and worldview: Lectures by Kenneth and Evelyn Pike—an interpretive summary."

Viet Nam

• MILLER, John D., author. 1976. "Types of phonic interference in Vietnamese speakers of English."  
• THURGOOD, Graham, author. 2006. "Sociolinguistics and contact-induced language change: Hainan Cham, Anong, and Phan Rang Cham."  

Pacific

Australia

• LEE, Jennifer R., author. 1983. Tiwi today: a study of language change in a contact situation.
• LEE, Jennifer R., author. 1987. Tiwi today: a study of language change in a contact situation.
• SHARPE, Margaret C., author. 1985. "Kriol - an Australian language resource."

Papua New Guinea

• BAROK, Sâcnemac; MCELHANON, Kenneth A., authors. 1975. "Transfer between Selepet and Melanesian Pidgin idioms."
• COMBS, Martin R., author. 1977. Cultural considerations in language change and communication.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1990. "On the translation of official notices into Tok Pisin."
• HOOLEY, Bruce A., author. 1987. "Death or life: The prognosis for Central Buang."
• JENKINS, Rebecca Sue, author. 2000. Language contact and composite structures in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
• JENKINS, Rebecca Sue, author. 2005. Language Contact and Composite Structures in New Ireland.  
• PHILLIPS, Donald J., author. 1973. "The influence of English on a tribal alphabet; or, The phoneme or the allophone?."
• REESINK, Gerard P., author. 1990. "Mother tongue and Tok Pisin."
• ROOSMAN, Raden S., author. 1975. "The Malay element in Melanesian Pidgin."

Solomon Islands

• SIMONS, Linda, author. 1985. "Malaitan influence on two grammatical particles in Solomon Islands Pijin."

Vanuatu

• EARLY, Robert J., author. 1991. "Access in Vanuatu: Optimal or maximal?."