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Mostly based on the contributions to a symposium held in October 2007 at the Hamburg Research Centre on Multilingualism.
Divergence, convergence, contact : challenges for the genealogical classification of languages / Georg Bossong
Increases in complexity as a result of language contact / Östen Dahl
Converging genetically related languages : endstation code mixing? / Kurt Braunmüller
Converging languages, diverging varieties : innovative relativisation patterns in Old Swedish / Steffen Höder
Converging verbal phrases in related languages : a case study from Faro-Danish and Danish-German language contact situations / Karoline H. Kühl & Hjalmar P. Petersen
Convergence and divergence of communicative norms through language contact in translation / Viktor Becher, Juliane House & Svenja Kranich
On the importance of spontaneous speech innovations in language contact situations / Robert E. Vann
Gradient merging of vowels in Barcelona Catalan under the influence of Spanish / Susana Cortés, Conxita Lleó & Ariadna Benet
Comparing the representation of iambs by monolingual German, monolingual Spanish, and bilingual German-Spanish children / Javier Arias & Conxita Lleó.
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Convergence and divergence in language contact situations. ISBN 9789027288820. Published by John Benjamins Pub. Co. in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.