The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art
of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established …

Objectives: Bringing linguistic experience into code-switching (CS) constraints, a new
hypothesis considers cross-language variable equivalence, which arises from within …

In the present study, we investigated estar constructions in the Spanish/English code-
switching variety of northern Belize, which is well known for its prolific use of hacer bilingual …

The article addresses the question of what happens to internal linguistic variability in a
language contact situation by looking at how first-generation Russian immigrants in …

This chapter shows how bilingual speech itself can elucidate the structure of Code-switching
(CS) and its relation to other outcomes of language contact, remembering that it is the …

While differential object marking (DOM) is productive in Spanish, Portuguese does not have
a DOM system, except for limited cases. DOM is variable in Spanish, where the presence of …

This study examines the distribution and use of simple and progressive forms in two groups:
English-speaking heritage speakers of Spanish in the US (n= 9) and Brazilian Portuguese …

The current chapter offers an empirical study of simple present and present progressive
variation across three Spanish varieties in Peru, comparing two distinct Spanish-speaking …

Traditionally, the American Dialect Society has focused on English in North America. This
work has resulted in many outstanding achievements. However, as the United States …

Must language contact and change be bedfellows? Do bilinguals inevitably mix, or
grammatically blend, their languages? Some notion of language mixing is implied by …