Editorial board: Sam Lutalo-Kiingi, Ronice Müller de Quadros, Nick Palfreyman, Roland
Pfau, Adam Schembri, Gladys Tang, Erin Wilkinson, Jun Hui Yang The series is dedicated to …

The term ''koine''has a confoundingly wide variety of interpretations in sociolinguistics (as
pointed out in Siegel 1985, 1993a), but among scholars working in language contact, a …

Since colonisation, the language ecology of Australia has shifted dramatically to
accommodate English. ¹ Although a number of Aboriginal languages continue to be spoken …

This paper addresses the questions, Do bilingually induced and shift-induced change have
different outcomes? If they do, can these differences assist us in reconstructing the …

The goal of this chapter is to look at the possibility of using various patterns in comparative
data to reconstruct different kinds of language contact. I ask the reader to forgive a …

Increasingly, the field of linguistics is highlighting and attending to global patterns of
diminishing linguistic diversity but to a significant extent it remains unclear what the loss of a …

The sociolinguistic concept of an Ausbau language is widely thought of as exclusively
associated with the standardization of languages for the political and social purposes of …

This chapter focuses on language contact in Australia. The story of Australian language
contact begins well before colonization but the most rapid changes have occurred in …

The more than 250 languages spoken in Australia prior to the nineteenth century exhibit
both striking similarities to one another and remarkable variation. The exponential increase …

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century many of the original 250 languages
of Australia ceased to be spoken, especially in areas where the indigenous peoples' land …